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1. Separated or at a distance in place or position or time
   "These towns are many miles apart"; "stood with his legs apart"; "born two years apart"
    
2. Not taken into account or excluded from consideration
   "these problems apart, the country is doing well";
   - aside
    
3. Away from another or others
   "they grew apart over the years"; "kept apart from the group out of shyness"; "decided to live apart"
    
4. Placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
   "had a feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart";
   - aside
    
5. One from the other
   "people can't tell the twins apart"
    
6. Into parts or pieces
   "he took his father's watch apart"; "split apart";
   - asunder

1. Remote and separate physically or socially
   "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart";
   - isolated, obscure, out on a limb
    
2. Having characteristics not shared by others
   "scientists felt they were a group apart"

See also: separate, unconnected

Encyclopedia: Apart