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dissipation | x |

As a noun dissipation

is the act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

dissipation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • without loss or dissipation of the matter
  • * Sir M. Hale
  • the famous dissipation of mankind
  • 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.
  • * P. Henry
  • to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“… This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. I am sure, Lord Stranleigh, that he has been descanting on the distraction of the woods and the camp, or perhaps the metropolitan dissipation of Philadelphia, …”}}
  • A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations .
  • (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system
  • x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----