a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa
an official visit for inspection or supervision; "the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations"; "the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese"
any disaster or catastrophe; "a visitation of the plague"
a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held
in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church