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Definition of Dissipating

Dissipating
Dissipate Dis"si*pate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissipated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissipating.] [L. dissipatus, p. p. of dissipare; dis- + an obsolete verb sipare, supare. to throw.] 1. To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. --Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. --Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. --Hazlitt. 2. To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander. The vast wealth . . . was in three years dissipated. --Bp. Burnet. Syn: To disperse; scatter; dispel; spend; squander; waste; consume; lavish.

Meaning of Dissipating from wikipedia

- of an irreversible process that affects a thermodynamic system. In a dissipative process, energy (internal, bulk flow kinetic, or system potential) transforms...
- thought of as a dissipative system. Dissipative systems stand in contrast to conservative systems. A dissipative structure is a dissipative system that has...
- Dissipative solitons (DSs) are stable solitary localized structures (solitons) that arise in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms...
- A wave-dissipating concrete block is a naturally or manually interlocking concrete structure designed and emplo**** to minimize the effects of wave action...
- In mathematics, a dissipative operator is a linear operator A defined on a linear subspace D(A) of Banach space X, taking values in X such that for all...
- Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) is an off-lattice mesoscopic simulation technique which involves a set of particles moving in continuous space and...
- structures oscillate, the dissipator devices, some of which are similar to pistons, slow down the vibration by dissipating viscous or friction energy...
- electrical charge. When the transmitter is switched off, these charges dissipate. The monitoring device makes several attempts to switch back on. If after...
- York Times pointed out impossibilities with the film's mechanism for dissipating tornadoes, observing that the method suggested would require many tons...
- and caused minor tree damage in the southern part of New Boston before dissipating. In Louisiana, an EF1 tornado caused minor damage on the north side of...