adj
Of or pertaining to attrition.
v
Misconstruction of catheterize [(medicine) To introduce a catheter into part of the body.]
v
To dissolve along with another substance
v
(transitive) To complicate.
n
An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
n
(computing) The ratio of the size of compressed data to the size of the original uncompressed data.
n
(medicine) The process of contracting a disease.
n
(mechanics) The reduction in the magnitude of oscillations by the dissipation of energy
v
(intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
n
The removal of something from a centre.
n
(graph theory) Decimation (the elimination of points from a lattice); the inverse of decoration.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce.
n
(obsolete) An act of melting.
v
(intransitive) To melt and disappear.
v
(transitive) To cause to melt.
v
Alternative spelling of derezz [(science fiction, intransitive, of an image) To disappear, or dissolve into pixels.]
adj
(statistics, said of data) having long-term trends removed in order to emphasise short-term changes.
adj
Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, especially of water.
adj
Having a low concentration.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.
n
(medicine, obsolete) The dispersion of a tumour.
n
(thermodynamics, obsolete or historical) A measure of the separation of the particles of a system; an early formulation of entropy.
adj
That causes disintegration.
adj
Relating to, or caused by dispersal
n
(graph theory) A particular kind of bipartite graph.
n
(medicine) The removal of inflammation.
adj
That becomes dispersed
n
(physics) A singularity associated with screw symmetry or a screw displacement, especially in liquid crystals and crystalline polymers; related to dislocation and disclination.
adj
Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated.
adj
Pertaining to, modifying by, showing dissimilation.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or causing dissimilation
v
(physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
n
(physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.
n
The value of energy loss rate of oscillation mode in a dissipative system.
n
(physics) The function governing the rate at which mechanical energy is converted to heat during viscous flow.
adj
Associated with dissipation.
adj
That dissipates, or causes dissipation
adv
In a dissipative manner
n
The condition of being dissipative
n
The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.
n
One who, or that which, dissipates something.
adj
That dissipates, or causes dissipation.
n
Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
adj
Relating to dissolution or dissolving.
adj
(now rare) Producing dissolution; dissolvent.
n
The process of dissolving; dissolution.
n
A substance which can dissolve or be dissolved into a liquid.
adv
So as to dissolve or disappear gradually.
n
(chemistry) A substance that is distributed between two immiscible liquids
n
The administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing.
n
(countable) An efferent process.
v
(intransitive, chemistry) To transition from the solid state to gaseous state without ever becoming a liquid
v
(transitive, chemistry, archaic) To refine or subtilize.
adj
That excerpts or selects.
adj
That withdraws natural resources by extraction
v
(transitive, intransitive) To melt; melt away; dissolve.
n
The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration.
n
A reduced level of dispersion (in any of several contexts)
v
(chemistry, transitive, intransitive) To make or become labile (i.e. unstable).
n
(film) A dissolve from one image or scene to another.
n
The process of making something flexible or pliant.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To make liquid.
adj
(telecommunications, computing) Lossy; involving loss of information.
v
To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To disappear gradually into.
adj
Of or pertaining to propulsion
n
The process of reattenuating.
v
(transitive) To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.
n
(medicine) The diminishing of a cellular mass like a tumor, or of an organ size.
n
(mathematics) A repelling set having a dense orbit
n
(medicine) That which has power to disperse inflammatory or other tumours; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused products.
adj
(systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
n
A process in modelbuilding, in which bulky and/or repetitious elements of the prototype being modeled are omitted, in order to capture the important details in a smaller-than-scale model.
n
The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid; dissolution.
adj
Having the power of dissolving; causing solution.
v
(transitive) To simplify to a great extent.
v
(transitive) To make intelligible; to restore from a garbled state.
adj
(of cooked food) reheated
n
One who, or that which, makes waterproof.
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