| 释义 |
ˈdissipative, a.
[f. L. dissipāt- ppl. stem: see dissipate v. and -ive.]
Tending to dissipate, having the property of dissipating.
1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. v. 147 These concretes do breathe out..an Armoniack, or dissipative scent. 1839–44Tupper Proverb. Philos. (1852) 373 The dissipative fashions of society. 1873H. Spencer Stud. Sociol. xiii. 324 Certain actions which go on in the first are cumulative, instead of being, as in the second, dissipative. 1889Russell in Nature 21 Nov. 61 The apparently dissipative action of the air on London smoke.
Hence dissipaˈtivity (in Physics), a quantity expressing the rate of dissipation of energy: also called dissipation-function.
1879Thomson & Tait Nat. Phil. I. i. §345 [This] function of the velocities..has been called by Lord Rayleigh the Dissipation Function. We prefer to call it Dissipativity. It expresses the rate at which the palpable energy of our supposed cycloidal system is..dissipated away into other forms of energy. |