Sentence examples for dissipative from inspiring English sources
The word "dissipative" is correct in written English
It is used in scientific contexts, particularly in physics and thermodynamics, to describe systems that lose energy, often in the form of heat. Example: "The dissipative nature of the system led to a gradual decrease in its energy efficiency." Alternatives include "energy-losing" or "non-conservative."
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That dissipates, or causes dissipation
This dissipative loss leads to attenuation of the electromagnetic signal, and the amount of attenuation increases linearly with increasing distance between the transmitter and the receiver.
Mechanical energy is constant in a system that has only gravitational forces or in an otherwise idealized system that is, one lacking dissipative forces, such as friction and air resistance, or one in which such forces can be reasonably neglected.
Nonconservative forces, such as friction, that depend on other factors, such as velocity, are dissipative, and no potential energy can be defined for them.
Prigogine argued that as long as systems receive energy and matter from an external source, nonlinear systems (or dissipative structures, as he called them) can go through periods of instability and then self-organization, resulting in more-complex systems whose characteristics cannot be predicted except as statistical probabilities.
Its generally level terrain, in the basin of the north-flowing, dissipative Wimmera River, is bounded by the Murray River on the north and the Eastern Highlands to the south and covers an area of about 9,200 square miles (23,800 square km).
He recalls the great guest speakers of old: "Thinker-mathematicians, fascinated by dissipative structures and complex systems.
The patterns, which he called "dissipative structures," were observed in physical chemical experiments in the late 1960's.
This characteristic motion, known as shearing flow, is an energy-dissipative process.
The information acquired during the non-dissipative measurement had to be stored in the state of the demon's memory.
The generality of their claim is based upon the fact that they made no attempt to characterise the device physically, although they did assume it was capable of performing non-dissipative measurements.
Seeing the cell as a thermodynamic 'dissipative structure' was not to be considered as reducing the cell to physics, as Bernal pointed out, rather a richer physics of what Warren Weaver called "organized complexity" (in contrast to simple order or "disorganized complexity") was being deployed (Weaver 1948).
