dissipation

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Director Rory Pelsue zeroed in on desire and dissipation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

When the charging source and battery occupy the same site, the system gains dissipation immunity limited to a single sublattice.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025

So the researchers posit that the only possible scenario is that fast dissipation of the ash cloud allowed for very quick cooling, ensuring that the shards were vitrified before being buried.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2025

What's more, the designs that are deployed tend to have a low wave dissipation per unit volume of material used.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

It had long been known that the Earth radiated appreciable amounts of heat–that was apparent to anyone who went down a coal mine–but there wasn’t any way of estimating the rate of dissipation.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson