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Dissociation   /dɪsˌoʊsiˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Dissociation

noun
1.
The act of removing from association.
2.
A state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently.  Synonym: disassociation.
3.
(chemistry) the temporary or reversible process in which a molecule or ion is broken down into smaller molecules or ions.



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"Dissociation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Puritan writers as one who, so says Hubbard, "had been a soldier in the Low Countries and had never entered the school of our Saviour Christ or of John the Baptist." But his companions and associates seem not to have permitted the dissociation to have had special weight with them. They gladly welcomed Captain Standish and his wife, Rose, among the little company of exiles that set out from Delft Haven for Virginia, and gave their names place on that memorable passenger list ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 • Various
... II., Edition II., page 395. Mr. Bateson ("Mendel's Principle of Heredity," Cambridge, 1902, page 38) says: "Naudin clearly enuntiated what we shall henceforth know as the Mendelian conception of the dissociation of characters of cross-breds in the formation of the germ-cells, though apparently he never developed this conception." It is remarkable that, as far as we know, Darwin never in any way came across Mendel's work. One of Darwin's correspondents, however, the late Mr. ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin
... worked out, was, moreover, calculated to aid in the needful dissociation of two notions: that of evolution and that of progress. In application to society these had long been confounded; and, as a consequence, the general idea seemed to be that only one type of evolution was here possible. ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
... conditions—lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the physical elements composing the dense and ethereal corpses, brought about by the burning. Instead of slow and gradual decomposition, swift dissociation takes place, and no physical remnants are left, ...
— Death—and After? • Annie Besant


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