dissimilation
Example Sentences
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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
It is in direct contradiction to that theory which supposes that each stimulus is followed by dissimilation or break-down of the tissue, reducing its function below par.
From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
The female name Annabel is a dissimilation of Amabel, whence Mabel.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Effect’ in Plant Fatigue.—It is assumed that in living substances like muscle, fatigue is caused by the break down or dissimilation of tissue by stimulus.
From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
As the brain mediates between sensation and motion, so the vascular system is the go-between of the organs of assimilation and the organs of dissimilation.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
