dis·sim·i·la·tion

(dĭ-sĭm′ə-lā′shən)

1. The act or process of making or becoming dissimilar.

2. Linguistics The process by which one of two similar or identical sounds in a word becomes less like the other, such as the l in English marble (from French marbre).

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dissimilation

(ˌdɪsɪmɪˈleɪʃən)

1. the act or an instance of making dissimilar

2. (Phonetics & Phonology) phonetics the alteration or omission of a consonant as a result of being dissimilated

3. (Biochemistry) biology a less common word for catabolism

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dis•sim•i•la•tion

(dɪˌsɪm əˈleɪ ʃən)

n.

1. the act of making or becoming unlike.

2. the process by which a speech sound becomes different from a neighboring sound, as in purple from Old English purpure, or disappears because of an identical sound nearby, as in the pronunciation of governor as (ˈgʌv ə nər) instead of (ˈgʌv ər nər)

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	dissimilation - a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other; "the Old French MARBRE became the English MARBLE by dissimilation" linguistic process - a process involved in human language
	2.	dissimilation - breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy catabolism, destructive metabolism, katabolism metabolic process, metabolism - the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life biological process, organic process - a process occurring in living organisms

Translations

Dissimilation

dissimilation

dis·as·sim·i·la·tion

, dissimilation

n. disasimilación, proceso destructivo.

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(13.) Sorkin, "The Invisible Community"; Sorkin, The Transformation of German Jewry; Volkov, "The Dynamics of Dissimilation."

Revealing Jews: Culture and Visibility in Modern Central Europe

(12) Also, their skin color, cultural dissimilation and the absence of nearby families and friends assured that the runaways would be unaided and could be easily recaptured.

AMERICAN LAW, SLAVES, AND FREEDMEN 1619-1860

As a side note on this discussion, while Cornelius credits Thomas Cable and Yakovlev for their work on the "principle of dissimilation" in Middle English meter, it is worth noting that Chris Golston has observed that linear asymmetry is a metrical principle even in the meter of Beowulf.

Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter

Academic language is, for her, a source of metaphorical play: "assimilation and dissimilation" govern the process of converting matter into more or less complex particles, but it is also a rhyming, gently ironic way of summing up the process of seasonal change.

Julia Fiedorczuk. Oxygen

There are many other phonological processes as well, like deletion, insertion, assimilation, dissimilation, etc.

Metathesis in Balochi

te 'this', [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 'day', -he- temporal suffix, [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] adjectival suffix), the word-initial [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] is the result of dissimilation.

Lexical innovations in the Erzya-Mordvin translations of the Lord's prayer

The post-war Hungarian political elites responding to the trauma of defeat gave up the former, pre-war nation building strategy based on assimilation: it was replaced by dissimilation and ethnicity-protection including a flirtation with anti-Semitism which had been elbowed off from politics by the pre-war liberal minded political elites.

FROM THE GUILTY CITY TO THE IDEAS OF ALTERNATIVE URBANIZATION AND ALTERNATIVE MODERNITY: ANTI-URBANISM As A BORDER-ZONE OF CITY-PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM IN THE INTERWAR HUNGARIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT/NUO PRASIKALTUSIO MIESTO LINK ALTERNATYVIOSIOS URBANIZACIJOS IR ALTERNATYVIOSIOS MODERNYBES IDEJU: ANTI-URBANIZMAS KAIP MIESTO FILOSOFIJOS IR KULTUROS KRITIKOS PARIBIO ZONA TARPUKARIO VENGRU POLITINEJE MINTYJE

This main movement's dissimilation is mainly from the state's symbols: It doesn't recognize the state's national holidays, and its representatives in the Knesset (United Torah Judaism) had kept from taking ministerial positions for years and acted as deputy minister with ministerial authorities until the High Court invalidated this practice.

A Rabbi in Iran--the Neturei Karta's Fight Against Israel

Impaired protein dissimilation in the small intestine allows significant amounts of protein to reach the colon, selectively encouraging the growth of proteolytic bacteria.

Gum Arabic Reduces C-Reactive Protein in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients without Affecting Urea or Indoxyl Sulfate Levels

"Dissimilation of the C2 sulfonates." Arch Microbiol, 179:1-6.

Evaluation of technological properties of Leuconostoc mesonteroides (V1) strain isolated from Algerian goat's milk