English edit

Etymology edit

dissipative +‎ -ity

Noun edit

dissipativity (usually uncountable, plural dissipativities)

  1. The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dissipativity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)