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dis·as·sim·i·la·tion

(dis'ă-sim'i-lā'shŭn),
Destructive or retrograde metabolism.
Synonym(s): dissimilation (1)
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This process of dissimilation as well as the usage of original ways of spelling of a given borrowing might have been brought about by an increased popularity of English among Poles, their raised language awareness, cultural contact via the modern media (with commercials laden with English brand names), and, last but not least, the phenomenon of re-borrowing of certain lexical items, frequently in a new meaning and also in an original orthographic form.
"Dissimilation" isn't isolated to February, either.
We can add here that the dissimilation between the second and the third duration is not so clear in Koidula's T4 as it is in Kreutzwald's: in positions a1 and [[alpha].sub.3] the index of the second duration is higher than that of the third, while differently from Kreutzwald's verse the index of the third duration is higher in position [[alpha].sub.2].
Le tribunal a retenu contre le mis en cause l'accusation d'assassinat premedite et dissimilation de preuves de crime, et l'a condamne a la peine capitale.
Moreover, the extent and degree of commercialization is also a crucial assessment criterion which cannot be neglected, as over commercialization of tourism development would undoubtedly lead to the extinction and dissimilation of traditional culture in these two cultural heritage sites.
In phonology, phonotactics has been used as a basis of classifying unusual segments (Francois 2010), proposing new theories of dissimilation and root co-occurrence restrictions (Berg 1989, Coetzee & Pater 2008, Harlow 1991, Mester 1986, Uhlenbeck 1950), and documenting language-internal pressures that motivate phonological processes (Blust 2007).
The exponential growth of legal literature, interdisciplinary nature of law subjects, their relationship & interdependence, widespread legal research activities and rapid dissimilation of legal research products are the main reasons distinguishing law faculty members from the rest of the social sciences researchers and faculty members, therefore, investigation of their information needs and seeking behavior is very much important.
Apres son election, le President de la Republique, Nicolas Sarkosy, rebondit sur quelques cas particulierement mediatises (1) pour justifier la necessite d'une intervention legislative tres controversee, d'abord concue pour les signes religieux et entre tous le voile integral, mais finalement elargie a toute forme de dissimilation du visage dans l'espace public (2).
Beginning in 1939, experts with ties to the SS, the RSHA, the Reich Commissariat for Strengthening German Ethnicity, and the German Labor Front, applied biosocial social criteria to transform such abstract historical concepts as "assimilation and dissimilation" into practical guidelines for the administration.
involves both assimilation and dissimilation, superiority and inferiority, violence and healing, and their inversion.