dissipation
- Noun. The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
- Noun. A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
- Noun. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
- Noun. (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.
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