Material or products physically isolated from production, marked and controlled until formally authorized for release. Materials segregated and withheld from use lots, batches, or other portions of components, packaging components, in-process materials, or products whose disposition must be determined by qualified personnel. Suitability for use must be determined by quality control personnel.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
quarantine (noun)1.
a period of 40 days
2.
a) a term during which a ship arriving in port and suspected of carrying contagious disease is held in isolation from the shore
b) a regulation placing a ship in quarantine
c) a place where a ship is detained during quarantine
3.
a) a restraint upon the activities or communication of persons or the transport of goods designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests
b) a place in which those under quarantine are kept
4.
a state of enforced isolation
transitive verb
1.
to detain in or exclude by quarantine
2.
intransitive verb
to isolate from normal relations or communication - quarantine an aggressor to establish or declare a quarantine
Separation, Solitude, Quarantine, Imprisonment, Custody, Exclusion, Solitariness, Incarceration, Custodianship, Apartness