The phrase "a means of separating" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing methods or tools that facilitate the act of dividing or distinguishing between different elements or groups.
Example: "The new software provides a means of separating relevant data from irrelevant information, making analysis much easier."
Alternatives: "a method for dividing" or "a way to distinguish".
In China also, inscriptions are a means of separating chronological fact from historiographic legend.
Today, Hawkes's anti-Semitism seems absurd, but he was by no means the last person to look to aptitude tests as a means of separating ambition from brains.
In the Democratic race, where party loyalty has become a means of separating two candidates with similar stands on major issues, polls show Attorney General Mike Easley with a narrow lead over Lt. Gov. Dennis Wicker.
This led ministers of both parties to seek various centrist dodges, from assisted places and city technology colleges to specialist schools, academies and free schools – all as a means of separating so-called good schools from "sink" ones.
The method received much attention in 1942 during the Manhattan Project as a means of separating the rare earths and transuranium elements, fission products of uranium, and other elements produced by thermonuclear explosions.
The system has been designed for immunoaffinity chromatography as a means of separating analytes of interest from biological matrices.
This article explores the spatial variation of plasma density in different gas backgrounds as a means to separate the role of diffusion from electron/ion recombination in these systems.
Clayton and Shifflers [ 12, 13] developed a framework for age-period-cohort analyses based on nested regression models as a means to separate the effects of each component.
Studies show that over time, test scores do not provide a consistent means of separating good from bad instructors.
Despite the obvious usefulness of studies using human twins, they do not present a definitive means of separating genetic from environmental influences due to the frequent confounding influence of close social and familial contact.
Quarantine (from the Italian "quaranta," meaning 40) was adopted as an obligatory means of separating persons, animals, and goods that may have been exposed to a contagious disease.
