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

simple past tense and past participle of dissipate

Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure.

(transitive) To drive away, disperse. / (transitive) To use up or waste; squander. / (intransitive) To vanish by dispersion. / (physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissipate

plural of dissipation

The process in which an electric or electronic device produces heat (or other waste energy) as an unwanted byproduct of its primary action.

plural of dissipation function

The value of energy loss rate of oscillation mode in a dissipative system.

(physics) The function governing the rate at which mechanical energy is converted to heat during viscous flow.