"disassimilation" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "dis- + assimilation",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "disassimilations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "disassimilate"
    }
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  "senses": [
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Biochemistry",
          "orig": "en:Biochemistry",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851 March 2, Buffalo Medical Journal, volume 6, number 10, page 584",
          "text": "It shows that the brain is not important to the proper performance of the functions of assimilation and disassimilation—or those of organic life.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1894, The Dental Register, volume 48, page 198",
          "text": "His experiments show “that about four-fifths of our disassimilations are the result of transformations within the body, comparable to the oxidation of alcohol, and that the remaining one-fifth of the disassimilations are formed at the expense of the living tissues themselves, free of all demands on foreign oxygen.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, William Henry Howell, A Text-book of physiology, page 342",
          "text": "There is a white-black substance which when acted upon by the visible rays of light undergoes disassimilation and sets up nerve impulses that arouse in the brain the sensation of white.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "catabolism (metabolism with the release of energy)"
      ],
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          "catabolism",
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        "(obsolete, biochemistry) catabolism (metabolism with the release of energy)"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Joel Pfister, Individuality incorporated: Indians and the multicultural modern",
          "text": "Judging from the autobiographical texts of these three authors, Natives often mixed assimilation with a degree of disassimilation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Kristofer Allerfeldt, The Progressive Era in the USA, 1890-1921, page 143",
          "text": "At this point, \"a process of disassimilation begins. The arts, life, and ideals of the nationality become central and paramount; ethnic and national differences change in status from disadvantages to distinctions.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Shaul Magid, American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society",
          "text": "I see Jewish Renewal as a late twentieth-century articulation of what I called the second stage of disassimilation of American Jews, its constructive/ illustrative phase.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of becoming less assimilated or integrated, particularly of ethnic groups."
      ],
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          "assimilated",
          "assimilate#English"
        ],
        [
          "integrated",
          "integrate#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "disassimilation"
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    {
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "dis- + assimilation",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "disassimilations",
      "tags": [
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  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851 March 2, Buffalo Medical Journal, volume 6, number 10, page 584",
          "text": "It shows that the brain is not important to the proper performance of the functions of assimilation and disassimilation—or those of organic life.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1894, The Dental Register, volume 48, page 198",
          "text": "His experiments show “that about four-fifths of our disassimilations are the result of transformations within the body, comparable to the oxidation of alcohol, and that the remaining one-fifth of the disassimilations are formed at the expense of the living tissues themselves, free of all demands on foreign oxygen.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, William Henry Howell, A Text-book of physiology, page 342",
          "text": "There is a white-black substance which when acted upon by the visible rays of light undergoes disassimilation and sets up nerve impulses that arouse in the brain the sensation of white.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Joel Pfister, Individuality incorporated: Indians and the multicultural modern",
          "text": "Judging from the autobiographical texts of these three authors, Natives often mixed assimilation with a degree of disassimilation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Kristofer Allerfeldt, The Progressive Era in the USA, 1890-1921, page 143",
          "text": "At this point, \"a process of disassimilation begins. The arts, life, and ideals of the nationality become central and paramount; ethnic and national differences change in status from disadvantages to distinctions.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Shaul Magid, American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society",
          "text": "I see Jewish Renewal as a late twentieth-century articulation of what I called the second stage of disassimilation of American Jews, its constructive/ illustrative phase.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of becoming less assimilated or integrated, particularly of ethnic groups."
      ],
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        ],
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          "integrated",
          "integrate#English"
        ]
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}