“Life was good, in a dissipated and decadent, perpetually-sozzled sort of way.”
“Any little unreality which she had tried to retain about her fate was completely dissipated.”
“The practicality of operating rules is colored by the economics of agreement rules, where time saved is increased earnings and time lost is dissipated earnings.”
“Surprisingly, the dissipative interactions decrease strongly after the first force peak occurring at a tip-sample distance of 25 nm.”
“A form that reaches that point becomes a dissipative structure and is able to transform itself, rectifies itself, constructs itself.”
“Such components can include simple springs, dampers, dashpots, masses, latches, bearings, non-linear potential and dissipative fields, or any other imaginable component.”
