Tending to dissipate or disperse; dispersive.

Of or pertaining to the phenomenon of the dissipation of energy. See energy.

adjective. Tending to dissipate.

adjective. an assumed system of matter and motions in which forces of friction and resistances of other kinds are introduced without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to conservative system.

adjective. That dissipates, or causes dissipation

"(The analogy doesn't quite work, however, because human society more closely resembles what Prigogine termed a dissipative system, a type of system far from thermodynamic equilibrium due to the large flows of energy through the system)."

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