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

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

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

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

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 Jowett, Benjamin

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