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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dissolution \Dis`so*lu"tion\, n. [OE. dissolucioun dissoluteness, F. dissolution, fr. L. dissolutio, fr. dissolvere. See Dissolve.]
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The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
Dissolutions of ancient amities.
--Shak. Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
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Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.
The dissolution of the compound.
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The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament.
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The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.
We expected Immediate dissolution.
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The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.
A man of continual dissolution and thaw.
--Shak. The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.
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Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.
To make a present dissolution of the world.
--Hooker. Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness. [Obs. or R.]
--Atterbury.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "separation into parts," also "frivolity, moral laxness, dissolute living," from Old French dissolution (12c.) and directly from Latin dissolutionem (nominative dissolutio) "a dissolving, destroying, interruption, dissolution," noun of action from past participle stem of dissolvere (see dissolve).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal. 2 disintegration, or decomposition into fragments. 3 dissolve, or going into solution.
WordNet
n. the process of going into solution; "the dissolving of salt in water" [syn: dissolving]
separation into component parts [syn: disintegration]
dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure [syn: profligacy, dissipation, licentiousness]
the termination of a meeting [syn: adjournment]
the termination of a relationship [syn: breakup]
Wikipedia
Dissolution or Dissolve may refer to:
- Dissolution (law), in law, means to end a legal entity or agreement such as a marriage, adoption, or corporation, or unions.
- Dissolution (chemistry), or solvation, in chemistry, the process of dissolving a solute into a solvent to make a solution
- Dissolution, in music, is a specific type of section (music).
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Dissolution of parliament, in politics, the dismissal of a legislature so that fresh elections can be held, sometimes ahead of schedule. And sometimes behind schedule
- Dissolution of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
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Dissolution of the Monasteries, in British history, the formal process during the English Reformation by which Henry VIII confiscated the property of the monastic institutions in England, Wales and Ireland between 1536 and 1541
- List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
- Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act 1535
- Tudor conquest of Ireland
- Dissolution (Byers novel), a 2002 fantasy novel by Richard Lee Byers
- Dissolution (Sansom novel), a 2003 historical novel by C. J. Sansom
- Dissolve (filmmaking), in film and video editing, a transition between scenes
- The Dissolve, a web magazine property of Pitchfork Media, covering movies
- Decadence, moral degeneracy
- In Hindu cosmology, the Great Dissolution, Pralaya
Dissolution is a fantasy novel by Richard Lee Byers. It is the first book of the War of the Spider Queen hexad, based on the Forgotten Realms setting of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
Dissolution (2003) is a historical mystery novel by British author C. J. Sansom. It is Sansom's first published novel, and the first in the Matthew Shardlake Series. It was dramatised by BBC Radio 4 in 2012.
The dissolution of gases, liquids, or solids into a liquid or other solvent is a process by which these original states become solutes (dissolved components), forming a solution of the gas, liquid, or solid in the original solvent. Solid solutions are the result of dissolution of one solid into another, and occur, e.g., in metal alloys, where their formation is governed and described by the relevant phase diagram. In the case of a crystalline solid dissolving in a liquid, the crystalline structure must be disintegrated such that the separate atoms, ions, or molecules are released. For liquids and gases, the molecules must be able to form non- covalent intermolecular interactions with those of the solvent for a solution to form.
The free energy of the overall, isolated process of dissolution must be negative for it to occur, where the component free energies contributing include those describing the disintegration of the associations holding the original solute components together, the original associations of the bulk solvent, and the old and new associations between the undissolved and dissolved materials.
Dissolution is of fundamental importance in all chemical processes, natural and unnatural, from the decomposition of a dying organism and return of its chemical constituents into the biosphere, to the laboratory testing of new, man-made soluble drugs, catalysts, etc. Dissolution testing is widely used in industry, including in the pharmaceutical industry to prepare and formulate chemical agents of consistent quality that will dissolve, optimally, in their target millieus as they were designed.
Some distinctions can be made between solvation, dissolution, and solubility.
In law, dissolution has multiple meanings.
Dissolution is the last stage of liquidation, the process by which a company (or part of a company) is brought to an end, and the assets and property of the company redistributed.
Dissolution may also refer to the termination of a contract or other legal relationship; for example, the dissolution of a marriage, or divorce.
Dissolution is also the term for the legal process by which an adoption is reversed. While this applies to the vast majority of adoptions which are terminated, they are more commonly referred to as disruptions, even though that term technically applies only to those that are not legally complete at the time of termination.
In international law, dissolution is when a state has broken up into several entities, and no longer has power over those entities, as it used to have previously. An example of this is the case of the former USSR dissolving into different republics.
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Usage examples of "dissolution".
Adams had written in his percipient letter to Nathan Webb, and to Adams now, as to others, dissolution remained the greatest single threat to the American experiment.
After the dissolution of the monasteries it was proposed to form a new diocese to include Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, but the project was abandoned, and both remained in the Lincoln diocese until 1837, when the latter was transferred to Oxford.
Think of Edward of Caernarvon, the first Prince of Wales, a perverse life, Pennyfeather, and an unseemly death, then the Tudors and the dissolution of the Church, then Lloyd George, the temperance movement, Noncomformity, and lust stalking hand in hand through the country, wasting and ravaging.
This is not the dissolution of the Cartesian ego, but its hyperinflation to cosmic proportions: a temporary transfusion of higher domains has empowered a monster.
To Cathartes there was something contemptible about how close he was to dissolution.
Canadians than it was to the Londoners, and his Churchillian refrain, that he had not become Governor of the HBC in order to preside over its dissolution, was a brave stance but hardly a policy.
At the dissolution of the monasteries the diocese of Bristol was founded, which included the counties of Bristol and Dorset.
So that with bone subjected to artificial gastric juice complete decalcification precedes the dissolution of the fibrous basis.
But it may be added, that should our own citizens, more enterprizing than wise, become desirous of settling this country, and emigrate thither, it must not only be attended with all the injuries of a too widely dispersed population, but, by adding to the great weight of the western part of our territory, must hasten the dismemberment of a large portion of our country, or a dissolution of the government.
This, according to Lord Grimthorpe, had apparently been done with the intention of demolishing the tower, probably soon after the time of the dissolution of the monastery, for the hole contained timber shores which were sufficient to support the tower while the workmen were enlarging the hole, but which were probably intended to be set on fire and burnt away, thus allowing the workmen to escape before the tower fell.
The word described the inevitable dissolution of agility and grace that happened to Hypers who lived too long away from the starships.
Emptiness, and not through a regressive dissolution of dialogical intersubjectivity into atomistic monological states and reductionistic mindless cognitive mechanism, the path the authors all too often stray into.
Tantra believes that after Maha Pralaya, the great dissolution, the new creation builds itself upon the Sanskaras-impressions and moulds of the past.
Lord Wharncliffe had scarcely risen to move for an address to his majesty against the dissolution, when the Duke of Richmond rose to complain that all the peers were not sitting in their proper places, as usual on such occasions.
I begin my letter just after the dissolution of the Comintern, and before the full effects of this have become clear.