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• dissipate — dis·si·pate / di sə ˌpāt/ vt pat·ed, pat·ing: to use (marital assets) for one s own benefit and to the exclusion of one s spouse for a purpose unrelated to the marriage at a time when the marriage is undergoing an irretrievable breakdown… …   Law dictionary

• Time-of-flight mass spectrometry — (TOFMS) is a method of mass spectrometry in which ions are accelerated by an electric field of known strength. [Stephens, W. E., [http://link.aps.org/abstract/PR/v69/p674/s2 A Pulsed Mass Spectrometer with Time Dispersion] Phys. Rev. , 1946, 69 …   Wikipedia

• dissipate — [dis′ə pāt΄] vt. dissipated, dissipating [ME dissipaten < L dissipatus, pp. of dissipare, to scatter < dis , apart + supare, to throw < IE base * swep > Sans svapū, broom, LowG swabbeln, to SWAB] 1. to break up and scatter; dispel;… …   English World dictionary

• dissipate — [[t]dɪ̱sɪpeɪt[/t]] dissipates, dissipating, dissipated 1) V ERG When something dissipates or when you dissipate it, it becomes less or becomes less strong until it disappears or goes away completely. [FORMAL] The tension in the room had… …   English dictionary

• dissipate — UK [ˈdɪsɪpeɪt] / US [ˈdɪsɪˌpeɪt] verb Word forms dissipate : present tense I/you/we/they dissipate he/she/it dissipates present participle dissipating past tense dissipated past participle dissipated formal 1) [intransitive/transitive] to… …   English dictionary

• dissipate — dis|si|pate [ dısı,peıt ] verb FORMAL 1. ) intransitive or transitive to gradually disappear by becoming less strong, or to make something do this: a material designed to dissipate heat 2. ) transitive to waste something such as time, money, or… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• dissipate — dis|si|pate [ˈdısıpeıt] v formal [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: dissipare, from supare to throw ] 1.) [I and T] to gradually become less or weaker before disappearing completely, or to make something do this ▪ As he thought it over, his anger …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Short time duty — The short time duty (or short time operation) indicates an operating mode of increased performance but for a shorter length of time. Commonly it is also referred to the maximum load (the performance) at which and the related maximum length of… …   Wikipedia

• Great Work of Time — is a novella by John Crowley. A science fiction story involving time travel, it concerns a secret society created by the will of Cecil Rhodes to preserve and expand the British Empire. Originally published in Crowley s 1989 collection Novelty ,… …   Wikipedia

• Bid Time Return — infobox Book | name = Bid Time Return image caption = First edition cover translator = cover artist = author = Richard Matheson country = United States language = English genre = Science fiction publisher = Viking Press release date = February 24 …   Wikipedia

• absorb — 1 Absorb, imbibe, assimilate can all mean to take (something) in so as to become imbued with it or to make it a part of one’s being. The original meaning of absorb, to swallow up (both literally and figuratively), has been retained in spite of… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms