APART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apart mean? 

• APART (adjective)
  The adjective APART has 2 senses:

1. remote and separate physically or socially

2. having characteristics not shared by others

  Familiarity information: APART used as an adjective is rare.

• APART (adverb)
  The adverb APART has 6 senses:

1. separated or at a distance in place or position or time

2. not taken into account or excluded from consideration

3. away from another or others

4. placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose

5. one from the other

6. into parts or pieces

  Familiarity information: APART used as an adverb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APART (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remote and separate physically or socially

Synonyms:

apart; isolated; obscure

Context example:

an obscure village

Similar:

unconnected (not joined or linked together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having characteristics not shared by others

Context example:

scientists felt they were a group apart

Similar:

separate (independent; not united or joint)

• APART (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Separated or at a distance in place or position or time

Context example:

born two years apart

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not taken into account or excluded from consideration

Synonyms:

apart; aside

Context example:

all joking aside, I think you're crazy

Sense 3

Meaning:

Away from another or others

Context example:

decided to live apart

Sense 4

Meaning:

Placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose

Synonyms:

apart; aside

Context example:

a day set aside for relaxing

Sense 5

Meaning:

One from the other

Context example:

people can't tell the twins apart

Sense 6

Meaning:

Into parts or pieces

Synonyms:

apart; asunder

Context example:

torn asunder

 Context examples 

No matter which direction you want to move—closer or further apart—you can now make plans for your future.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The nuclear fusion processes constantly try to rip the star apart.

(Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life, ESA/NASA)

The formula consists of three parts: (1) a pair of lovers are jarred apart; (2) by some deed or event they are reunited; (3) marriage bells.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Teasing the two apart is difficult, especially in humans.

(Nose Form Was Shaped by Climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

If an object gets too close to a black hole, gravity can pull that object apart, bringing the debris into a close orbit around the black hole.

(NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This is the first evidence that terrestrial planets can form in orbits similar to Earth's, even in a binary star system where the stars are not very far apart.

(Newfound Frozen World Orbits in Binary Star System, NASA)

Once a photograph was taken of the planet, astronomers then used instruments called spectrometers to break apart the planet's light.

(Water Found in Planet 120 Light Years Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But due to strong irradiation on the planet's daysides, temperatures there get so intense that water molecules are completely torn apart.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

So how did they end up together - but apart?

(NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in 'Dance of Avoidance', NASA)

Although many stellar siblings may form together in tight clusters, stars are always moving, and as they grow older they tend to move farther and farther apart.

(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)