dissimilation
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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
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
The modified or positive response in nerve is thus held to be due to assimilation; after continuous stimulation, this process is supposed to be transformed into one of dissimilation, with the attendant negative response.
From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
A number of occupative names have lost the last syllable by dissimilation, e.g.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
