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the spread of a cultural pattern from one culture to another, and where no directed change agent is apparent.
Ãâó: oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth370/gloss.html
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| diffraction |
The bending of a wave front around an obstacle in the sound field. [3]
Ãâó: www.keithyates.com/glossary.htm
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| difference |
The result of subtracting two numbers.
Ãâó: www.bagatrix.net/glossary/math_glossary_d.htm
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A key part of structuralist and semiotic emphases, arguing that meaning is produced largely in the difference between units, rather than what they have in common. Has important (often destructive) consequences for thinking about struggles for equal rights; political and emotional identification with
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| diffuse |
If an area contains a high concentration of molecules, then purely on statistical grounds, they will spread out, much as children in a playground fill the whole ground rather than remain at one end of it. Diffusion causes molecules in regions of high concentration to spread into regions of low concentration. Such spread is called diffusion and the molecules are said to diffuse.
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