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dissimilation

[dih-sim-uh-ley-shuhn] / dɪˌsɪm əˈleɪ ʃən /


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The result has been widespread public furor over crime, cultural dissimilation and fears of terrorism.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2016

For in these cases the supposed dissimilation is followed not by a decrease but by an increase of functional activity.

From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose

There is also separation and aggregation, assimilation and dissimilation, increase, diminution, equalization, a passage from motion to rest, and from rest to motion in the one and many.

From Parmenides by Benjamin Jowett

Old Fr. livel became by dissimilation nivel, now niveau.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

These parts are all concerned in the processes of assimilation and dissimilation, and the lower layer may accordingly be called the trophic layer.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell




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