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What does dissipation mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
  2. 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.
  3. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
  4. (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system
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This is the harvest one reaps when one sows in extravagance and dissipation.
In the compressor, the gas is compressed before it is transferred to the condenser where actual heat dissipation occurs.
The serrated fins actually increase the surface area to allow for more heat dissipation.
However, this estimate does not include the dissipation of energy in the excited state due to solvation and vibrational cooling before dumping.
Not that my life has been a wild bacchanalian phantasmagoria of debauchery and dissipation, but I've had my moments.
Convection is the dissipation of heat when relatively cool air passes over exposed skin.

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