Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being dissociated; separable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not well associated, united, or assorted; not sociable; incongruous; not reconcilable.
- Capable of being dissociated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not well associated or assorted; incongruous.
- adjective Having a tendency to dissolve social connections; unsuitable to society; unsociable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
dissociated ,divided orseparated . - adjective Not well associated or assorted;
incongruous . - adjective Having a tendency to
dissolve social connections ; unsuited tosociety ;unsociable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being divided or dissociated
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Examples
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"dissociable," with tongues which he cannot utter, or cannot understand; that, like the wife of Hector, it proclaims in accents scarcely to be resisted, that there is a tower assigned to everyman, where it is his first duty to plant himself for the sake of his own, and in the defence of which he will find perhaps enough to do, without extending his care to the whole circuit of the city walls.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829 Various
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Our data indicate that mechanisms for the emergence of gender versus racial bias are neurogenetically dissociable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Children Who Form No Racial Stereotypes Found” 2010
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Our data indicate that mechanisms for the emergence of gender versus racial bias are neurogenetically dissociable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Children Who Form No Racial Stereotypes Found” 2010
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Publisher: Putman Media, Inc. Influence of the formamidine pesticide chlordimeform on ovulation in the female hamster: dissociable shifts in the luteinizing hormone surge and oocyte release (SuDoc EP 1.23/6: 600/J-94/040) by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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They report that “wanting” and “liking” have “are in fact dissociable and have different neural substrates.”
Revealed Preference vs. Happiness, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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To say that a system is functionally dissociable is to say that it can be selectively impaired, that is, damaged or disabled with little or no effect on the operation of other systems.
Modularity of Mind Robbins, Philip 2009
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According to Hardcastle, pain is a complex phenomenon consisting of many dissociable dimensions.
Pain Aydede, Murat 2009
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Each of these disorders have been found in otherwise cognitively normal individuals, suggesting that the lost capacities are subserved by functionally dissociable mechanisms.
Modularity of Mind Robbins, Philip 2009
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In the text I prefer “valuing” for this act of the Will distinguishable from pleasure and arguably antecedent to and dissociable from it, as on Ockham's own view.
Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006
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For that, it would be necessary in the future (but there will be no future except on this condition) to think both the event and the machine as two compatible or even in-dissociable concepts.
Jacques Derrida Lawlor, Leonard 2006
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