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Description: Viruses are constantly encountering new species and attempting to infect them. More often than not, this ends in failure. In most cases, the genetic dissimilarity between the two hosts is too great. For a virus adapted to infect humans, a lettuce cell would be a foreign and inhospitable landscape.

Sushant Singh Rajput

There are so many ways to approach a character. You have to figure out the similarities between you and the character, build on them, and at the same time, blur the dissimilarities. Since you do it day in and day out, it becomes a process and a part of you.

Indian Actor

Barbara Cooney

Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

American Writer

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

French Historian

Carl Olson

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.

American Athlete

Marshall McLuhan

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

Canadian Sociologist

Think of 'dissimilarity' as pointing out differences; it emphasizes what is not the same.

Using Negation

Two things can be dissimilar without being complete opposites; they may share some qualities.

Not Opposites

Use 'dissimilarity' when discussing subtle or minor differences that are not immediately obvious.

Subtle Differences

In computing, 'dissimilarity' refers to data or elements that don’t match or align well.

Technical Context

In computing, 'dissimilarity' might involve measurable factors to compare data sets.

Quantitative Analysis

It is often used in algorithms for clustering, classifying, or sorting diverse data.

Algorithm Usage

 Viruses are constantly encountering new species and attempting to infect them. More often than not, this ends in failure. In most cases, the genetic dissimilarity between the two hosts is too great. For a virus adapted to infect humans, a lettuce cell would be a foreign and inhospitable landscape.

Dissimilarity

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