Dictionary Definition
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 [syn: disassociation]
3 (chemistry) the temporary or reversible process
in which a molecule or ion is broken down into smaller molecules or
ions
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.
- The process by which
a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; said
particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances.
- the dissociation of the sulphur molecules
- the dissociation of ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia
- the dissociation of the sulphur molecules
Translations
act of dissociating
- Dutch: dissociatie, scheiding
- Italian: dissociazione
chemistry: process of breaking up
- Dutch: dissociatie
- Italian: dissociazione
defencemechanism
- Italian: dissociazione
Extensive Definition
Dissociation has different meanings in different
sciences.
dissociation in German: Dissoziation
dissociation in French: Dissociation
dissociation in Italian: Dissociazione
dissociation in Dutch: Dissociatie
dissociation in Japanese: 解離
dissociation in Polish: Dysocjacja
dissociation in Slovak: Disociácia
dissociation in Serbian: Дисоцијација
dissociation in Finnish: Dissosiaatio
dissociation in Swedish:
Dissociation
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alienation, alpha decay,
alternating personality, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic
disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, autism, autistic thinking,
avoidance mechanism, beta decay, blame-shifting, bombardment, breeding, bullet, catalysis, catalyst, chain reaction,
cleavage, compensation, decay, decompensation, defense
mechanism, depersonalization,
dereism, dereistic
thinking, dialysis,
disassociation,
disconnection,
discreteness,
disintegration series, disjunction, disjuncture, displacement, dissociation
of personality, double personality, dual personality, emotional
dissociation, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy,
escape mechanism, escapism, exchange reaction,
fantasizing,
fantasy, fission, fission reaction,
flight, gamma decay,
hydrolysis, hydrolyst, immateriality, impertinence, inapplicability,
inappositeness,
inconnection,
inconsequence,
independence,
ionization, irrelation, irrelevance, isolation, mental
dissociation, multiple personality, negativism, neutron reaction,
nonreversible reaction, nuclear fission, nucleization, overcompensation,
paranoia, paranoid
personality, personality disorganization, photodisintegration,
photolysis, projection, proton gun,
proton reaction, psychotaxis, rationalization,
resistance,
reversible reaction, schizoid personality, schizoidism, schizophrenia, schizothymia, separateness, sociological
adjustive reactions, split personality, splitting, splitting the atom,
stimulation,
sublimation,
substitution,
target, thermolysis, thermonuclear
reaction, unconnectedness,
unrelatedness,
wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal