isolated
    adj 1: not close together in time; "isolated instances of
           rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs" [syn: isolated,
           stray]
    2: being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt
       detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated
       figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself
       as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart
       feeling" [syn: detached, isolated, separated, set-
       apart]
    3: marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements;
       "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected
       as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly
       [syn: disjunct, isolated]
    4: cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded
       fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
       [syn: isolated, marooned, stranded]
    5: under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a
       quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" [syn: isolated,
       quarantined]
    6: remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the
       centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they
       inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages
       remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village"
       [syn: apart(p), isolated, obscure]

Isolated \I"so*la`ted\ ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[e^]d), a.
   Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others.
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   Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.
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Isolate \I"so*late\ ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]t or [imac]s"[-o]*l[=a]t;
   277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Isolated
   ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Isolating
   ([imac]"s[-o]*l[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [It. isolato, p. p. of isolare
   to isolate, fr. isola island, L. insula. See 2d Isle, and
   cf. Insulate.]
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   1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or
      alone; to insulate; to separate from others; as, to
      isolate an infected person from others; to isolate the
      troublemakers in a classroom.
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            Short isolated sentences were the mode in which
            ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts.
                                                  --Bp.
                                                  Warburton.
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   2. (Elec.) To insulate. See Insulate.
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   3. (Chem.) To separate (a substance) from all foreign
      substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state; as,
      to isolate the desired product from a reaction mixture.
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   4. (Microbiol.) To obtain a culture of a microorganism in
      pure form (from a complex mixture); as, to isolate
      Eschericia coli from a patient's blood.
      [PJC]

compact
finite
isolated

   1.  (Or "finite", "isolated") In domain theory, an
   element d of a cpo D is compact if and only if, for any
   chain S, a subset of D,

   	d <= lub S  =>  there exists s in S such that d <= s.

   I.e. you always reach d (or better) after a finite number of
   steps up the chain.

   ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).

   [Jargon File]

   (1995-01-13)

   2.  Of a design, describes the valuable property that
   it can all be apprehended at once in one's head.  This
   generally means the thing created from the design can be used
   with greater facility and fewer errors than an equivalent tool
   that is not compact.  Compactness does not imply triviality or
   lack of power; for example, C is compact and Fortran is
   not, but C is more powerful than Fortran.  Designs become
   non-compact through accreting features and cruft that
   don't merge cleanly into the overall design scheme (thus, some
   fans of Classic C maintain that ANSI C is no longer
   compact).

   (2008-10-13)