Usually means: Energy dispersing in non-recoverable ways.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. dissipative: Merriam-Webster
  2. dissipative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dissipative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dissipative: Wordnik
  5. dissipative: Wiktionary
  6. Dissipative, dissipative: Dictionary.com
  7. Dissipative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Dissipative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. dissipative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Dissipative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. dissipative: FreeDictionary.org
  12. dissipative: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dissipative: Legal dictionary

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  1. dissipative: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dissipative)

▸ adjective:  That dissipates, or causes dissipation

Similar:
dissipatory, diffusive, disintegrating, disassociative, defusive, vanishing, dissuasory, disparent, disseminatory, extinguishant, more...

Opposite:
conservative, preservative

Types:
conservative, unstable, neutral, more...

Phrases:
dissipative structures, dissipative structure, Dissipative system, Dissipative particle dynamics, more...

Adjectives:
static, non, inherently, more, long, maximal, intrinsically

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Similar:
dissipatory, diffusive, disintegrating, disassociative, defusive, vanishing, dissuasory, disparent, disseminatory, extinguishant, more...

Opposite:
conservative, preservative

Types:
conservative, unstable, neutral, more...

Phrases:
dissipative structures, dissipative structure, Dissipative system, Dissipative particle dynamics, more...

Adjectives:
static, non, inherently, more, long, maximal, intrinsically



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