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

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

Three of the most important of these are assimilation, dissimilation, and metathesis.

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

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 Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir

The same group of names is affected by dissimilation, i.e. the instinct to avoid the recurrence of the same sound.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest