Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation. / Happening or occurring only once. / (chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.

simple past tense and past participle of isolate

(chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people. / The act of isolating.

(transitive) To set apart or cut off from others. / (transitive) To place in quarantine or isolation. / (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.

Something that has been isolated.

An electrical device that detects short circuits and isolates them. / A device that isolates something from the surrounding environment to keep it sterile.

present participle of isolate

(linguistics, of languages) having low morpheme per word ratio and no inflectional morpheme

plural of isolate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of isolate