DISSIPATE


Meaning of DISSIPATE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

energy

The net effect of these factors is to dissipate the energy of the returning hammer.

As penniless brokers they often had to dissipate energy on make-do and mend activities.

Such materials char and melt, rapidly absorbing and dissipating energy as they do so.

heat

One has low power requirements, thereby dissipating little heat , the other has high-density circuitry.

More efficient drives dissipate less heat and hence require smaller heat sinks-traditionally the largest component.

This energy is dissipated as heat , and increases the amount of disorder in the universe.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

An evaporation system is used to dissipate heat from the sun and protect the shuttle's electronics.

She had dissipated her fortune by the time she was twenty-five.

The gas cloud had dissipated by late morning.

They dissipated their inheritance money in a very short period of time.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Close to, the illusion of glowing feyness dissipated.

He achieved little in his work and dissipated much of his time in an uncongenial student fraternity.

How does a person not lose him or herself when he or she dissipates such a powerful building block of humanity?

Kirov's anger dissipated somewhat as he played the recording over a couple of times.

My father waited for the energy of my attack to dissipate .

The other method is to dissipate the extra 3. 2 kilometers per second by passing through the upper atmosphere.

The solid nitrogen is also dissipating faster than expected.

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