disjoining

Example Sentences

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Contact may be due to the action of one or two things, or the effect of another contact and so is disjoining.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

The islanders of the South Sea are not singular then, in mentally disjoining official dignity from moral excellence.--E.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Kerr, Robert

Some links of successive trains or of synchronous tribes of action may be left out without disjoining the whole.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Number, measure, separateness, contact, and disjoining, the quality of belonging to a higher or lower class, action, all these as they abide in things possessing colour are visible to the eye.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

Gu@nas inhere in dravya, cannot possess further gu@nas, and are not by themselves the cause of contact or disjoining.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath