dissipation
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"There is no wear, no surface roughness and no direct contact. Dissipation is generated solely by collective magnetic rearrangements."
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026
Dissipation of body heat through the skin pores of itself may produce a common cold, declared William John Kerr and John B. Lagen of the University of California.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dissipation, alas, now seems less a simulacrum than a portrait.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dissipation of the body manufactured heat depends on the surroundings.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Dissipation or passing off of his Nutrition being unequal, the Occasions he has for repairing it cannot be precisely dated and regular.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
Vocabulary lists containing dissipation
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