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Sequestration
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In law, sequestration may refer to:
- Sequestration (law), the seizure of property
- Jury sequestration, the isolation of a jury in order to ensure they are not prejudiced by external contact
- In Scottish law, the term for bankruptcy
- In U.S. law, a procedure by which an automatic spending cut is triggered, introduced to the federal budget in 1985 by the Gramm–Rudman–Hollings Balanced Budget Act
- most recently implemented in the Budget Control Act of 2011
- In certain cases of public health risk, protective sequestration refers to measures taken to protect a small, defined, and still-healthy population from an epidemic (or pandemic)
In science, sequestration may refer to:
- Carbon sequestration, the process of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
- Biological processes in which an organism accumulates a compound or tissue, as in
- Enclosing a metal ion by one or more polydentate ligands as in a chelate complex
- A procedure in particle physics of isolating different types of physical processes or different particle species by separating them geometrically in additional dimensions of space, as advocated by scientists such as Lisa Randall
As a proper name, Sequester may refer to:
- Sequester (band), a Canadian heavy metal band
- Vibius Sequester, a 4th or 5th century author
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