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n. The act of dissipating or the condition of having been dissipated.

n. Wasteful expenditure or consumption.

n. Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure; intemperance.

n. An amusement; a diversion.

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

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

n. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.

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

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

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

n. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.

n. The act of dissipating, dispelling, or dispersing; the state of being dissipated; a passing or wasting away: as, the dissipation of vapor or heat; the dissipation of energy.

n. The act of wasting by misuse; wasteful expenditure or loss: as, the dissipation of one's powers or means in unsuccessful efforts.

n. Distraction of the mind and waste of its energy, as by diverse occupations or objects of attention; anything that distracts the mind or divides the attention.

n. Undue indulgence in pleasure; specifically, the intemperate pursuit of enjoyment through excessive use of intoxicating drink, and its attendant vices.

n. useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly

n. dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure

n. breaking up and scattering by dispersion

"However, it has also been noted that elevated turbulent dissipation is by itself insufficient proof of substantial biogenic mixing, because much of the turbulent kinetic energy of small animals is injected below the Ozmidov buoyancy length scale, where it is primarily dissipated as heat by the fluid viscosity before it can affect ocean mixing2."

intemperance    self-indulgence    intemperateness    dispersion    scattering   

circle of dissipation    dissipation function    radius of dissipation    dissipation of energy   

dispersion    waste    dissoluteness    scattering    diffusion   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   

extravagance    debauchery    frivolity    idleness    sensuality