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- noun Plural form of
diffusion .
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Examples
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The objective of the exercise was not only to engage the imagined poetics of inhabiting a cloud and its lifecycle of diffusions and condensations, but also to think of a form of distributed architecture that could still be a body.
Carla Leitao: Cloud Architecture Carla Leitao 2011
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The objective of the exercise was not only to engage the imagined poetics of inhabiting a cloud and its lifecycle of diffusions and condensations, but also to think of a form of distributed architecture that could still be a body.
Carla Leitao: Cloud Architecture Carla Leitao 2011
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On the first, his voice enhanced by all sorts of robotic diffusions, he sings a high-pitched plea to "have a good day today."
♪♫ David Lynch: Pop star? Melissa Bell 2010
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Silicon crystals are drawn as a boule from molten silicon (requiring large amounts of energy and time), are sawn into wafers into which dopant diffusions are implanted (again in furnaces requiring energy and time).
Thin Film Solar Companies Raise Hundreds of Millions in Financing - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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He says that "the world-wide diffusions of prosperity should not ... be held up by projects that are protectionist."
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Billet où il parle de la réaction qu'il a recontrée lors d'une de ses conférences en Afrique du Sud et suite à laquelle il a été traité de naïf en défendant l'importance d'un accès libre aux résultats scientifiques et de laisser aux créateurs d'Åuvres culturelles de choisir eux-mêmes les droits de diffusions de leurs créations.
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Substantial, wholesome, and clean — though generated by a wet, helpless creature having no personal charms, and which, having passed the phase of life in which it enjoyed the gift of locomotion, has become a plant-like fixture to one spot — the gas mingles with other diffusions of the reef, recalling villanous salt-petre and sheepdips and brimstone and treacle to the stimulation of the mental faculties generally.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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We suspect that the vast fame with which the great historian is surrounded is one of those vague diffusions of acquiescence which gather when people are too busy, too lazy or too timid to see things for themselves.
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Unusual or revolutionary stylistic approaches may be compared to the adoption process that occurs as a result of diffusions of innovations.
MARKETING AESTHETICS BERND SCHMITT 1997
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Unusual or revolutionary stylistic approaches may be compared to the adoption process that occurs as a result of diffusions of innovations.
MARKETING AESTHETICS BERND SCHMITT 1997
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