S vs Dissipation - What's the difference?
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The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
* Francis Bacon
* Sir M. Hale
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
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
* Jonathan Swift
(physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun dissipation is
the act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.s
Translingual
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Symbol
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(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}dissipation
English
Noun
(en noun)- without loss or dissipation of the matter
- the famous dissipation of mankind
- to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance
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, …”}}
- Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations .