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The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

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A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.

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A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.

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A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.

The results obtained as to the relation between dissipation and barometric pressure are conflicting.

He also admits himself that mental evolution exemplifies integration of matter and dissipation of motion only indirectly.

This general law, known as the principle of the "dissipation of energy," was first adequately pointed out by Lord Kelvin in 1852; and was applied by him to some of the principal problems of cosmical physics.

But he could only keep his place by supplying his master with the means of dissipation and by conforming to his dynastic sentiments.

The cylinder was made in alloy for good heat dissipation.

Dissipation seems largely dependent on meteorological conditions, but the phenomena at different stations vary so much as to suggest that the connexion is largely indirect.

For the Roman Church his conversion secured great prestige and the dissipation of many prejudices.

His perfect openness, the notoriety of his bankruptcies and of the seizure of his books and furniture in execution, kept him before the world as a model of dissipation.

The study of evolution, without considering how many conditions are required for " the integration of matter and the dissipation of motion " to begin, and the undoubted discoveries which have resulted from the study of inorganic and organic evolution, have led men to expect too much from this one law of Nature.

In 45 he was sent to Athens to study rhetoric and philosophy, but abandoned himself to a life of dissipation.

The function F is therefore called by Lord Rayleigh the dissipation function.

He found that the momentary dissipation was proportional to the degree of electrification at the time, and that, when the charge was moderate, its dissipation was not altered in bodies of different kinds or shapes.

The temperature and pressure of the atmosphere did not produce any sensible change; but he concluded that the dissipation was nearly proportional to the cube of the quantity of moisture in the air.'

In examining the dissipation which takes place along imperfectly insulating substances, he found that a thread of gum-lac was the most perfect of all insulators; that it insulated ten times as well as a dry silk thread; and that a silk thread covered with fine sealing-wax insulated as powerfully as gum-lac when it had four times its length.

He found also that the dissipation of electricity along insulators was chiefly owing to adhering moisture, but in some measure also to a slight conducting power.

Early in life Richard Savage acquired notoriety by his dare-devilry and dissipation, and he was, too, one of the most conspicuous rakes in the society of the period.

It was in this paper that the principle of the dissipation of energy, briefly summarized in the second law of thermodynamics, was first stated.

The convention preserves the status of their eldest son by preventing the dissipation of status originating in the wife's line.

Multiple air conditioning units to ensure proper heat dissipation.

This creates higher friction and heat build-up and at the same time reduces heat dissipation.

Both of these new features are designed to improve thermal dissipation.

In addition, the Heatpipe Technology allows better heat dissipation that is delivered by the larger heat sink surface.

The practically important effects of viscous dissipation have been taken into account.

To ensure better and more efficient dissipation of heat the outlet valves are filled with sodium.

Quite clearly the cooling unit is lacking the capacity to absorb enough heat to allow for effective heat dissipation.

We present a model which predicts energy dissipation by a series of events of varying size.

This was confirmed by Elster and Geitel (7), whose form of dissipation apparatus has been employed in most recent work.

Thus at Innsbruck Defant (45) found the mean dissipation on days of Fain fully thrice that on days without Fan.

At Kremsmiinster, Zolss (42) found dissipation vary with the absolute height of the barometer, a± having a mean value of 1.36 when pressure was below the normal, as against 1.20 on days when pressure was above the normal.

On the Sonnblick, Conrad (22) found dissipation increase decidedly as the absolute barometric pressure was larger, and he found no difference between days of rising and falling barometer.

Topolansky (54) have found a marked connexion at Vienna between dissipation and ozone.

The rise in q and Q indicates that the diminished rate of dissipation is most marked for positive charges, and that negative ions are even more reduced then positive.

Though controlling all phenomena of which we have any experience, the principle of the dissipation of energy rests on a very different foundation from that of the conservation of energy; for while we may conceive of no means of circumventing the latter principle, it seems that the actions of intelligent beings are subject to the former only in consequence of the rudeness of the machinery which they have at their disposal for controlling the behaviour of those ultimate portions of matter, in virtue of the motions or positions of which the energy with which they have to deal exists.

There is this difference, however, between this experiment and the operation imagined by Maxwell, that when the gases have diffused the experiment cannot be repeated; and it is no more contrary to the dissipation of energy than is the fact that work may be derived at the expense of heat when a gas expands into a vacuum, for the working substance is not finally restored to its original condition; while Maxwell's "demons" may operate without limit.

His mother, between domestic cares and constant infirmities (which, however, did not prevent an occasional plunge into fashionable dissipation in compliance with her husband's wishes), did but little for him.

She utterly neglected affairs in order to plunge into a whirl of dissipation with her foreign favourites.

Dissolution, and finally reaches the statement of the Law of Evolution as" an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the matter passes from a an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation."This process of evolution is due to" the instability of the homogeneous,"the" multiplication of effects "and their" segregation,"continuing until it ceases in complete" equilibration."Sooner or later, however, the reverse process of Dissolution, with its absorption of motion and disintegration of matter, which indeed has always been going on to some extent, must prevail, and these oscillations of the cosmic process will continue without end.

If this could be co-ordinated and utilized without dissipation, the gas might conceivably be restored to its initial state; but in practice violent local differences of pressure and temperature are produced, the kinetic energy is rapidly converted into heat by viscous eddy friction, and residual differences of temperature are equalized by diffusion throughout the mass.

About this time the duke plunged into a whirl of dissipation, and chose the beautiful but unscrupulous Contessa di Verrua as his mistress, neglecting his faithful and devoted wife.

As a step towards removing this difficulty we notice that the energy of a vibration such as is represented by a spectral line has the peculiarity of being unable to exist (so far as we know) without suffering dissipation into the ether.

It was on the whole a rare amusement, which, continued too long, might have become a dissipation.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation.

Hot weather water exercise is particularly beneficial to morbidly obese individuals, who often have trouble with heat dissipation.

Lydia Larkin spun out of the meadow in a cloud of dust, leaving Dean to await its dissipation before following in his open vehicle.

Also it requires a long series of years to give thoroughly representative results for any element, and few stations possess more than a year or two's dissipation data.

Observations on the Sonnblick agree with those at low-level stations in showing a diminution of dissipation with increase of relative humidity.

At several stations enjoying a wide prospect the dissipation has been observed to be specially high on days of great visibility when distant mountains can be recognized.

Dissipation was above the average when cyclonic conditions prevailed, but this seemed simply a consequence of the increased wind velocity.

After two hours' exposure, it is wrapped round a frame supported in a given position relative to Elster and Geitel's dissipation apparatus, and the loss of charge is noted.

The radioactivity is denoted by A, and A = signifies that the potential of the dissipation apparatus fell I volt in an hour per metre of wire introduced.