Dissolution

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  • noun. Decomposition into fragments or parts; disintegration.
  • noun. Indulgence in sensual pleasures; debauchery.
  • noun. Termination or extinction by disintegration or dispersion.
  • noun. Extinction of life; death.
  • noun. Annulment or termination of a formal or legal bond or relationship.
  • noun. Formal dismissal of an assembly or legislature.
  • noun. Reduction to a liquid form; liquefaction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of dissolving, or changing from a solid to a liquid state; the state of undergoing liquefaction.
  • noun. The substance formed by dissolving a body in a menstruum; a solution.
  • noun. Separation into parts, especially into elementary or minute parts; disintegration; decomposition or resolution of natural structure, as of animal or vegetable substances. Specifically
  • noun. Death; the separation of soul and body.
  • noun. Separation of the parts which compose a connected system or body: as, the dissolution of nature; the dissolution of government.
  • noun. The process of retrogression or degeneration: opposed to evolution.
  • noun. The breaking up of an assembly or association of any kind, or the bringing of its existence to an end: as, a dissolution of Parliament, or of a partnership; the dissolution of the English monasteries under Henry VIII.
  • noun. The act of relaxing or weakening; enervation; looseness or laxity, as of manners; dissipation; dissoluteness.
  • noun. The determination of the requisites of a mathematical problem.
  • noun. Synonyms and Termination, destruction, ruin.
  • noun. Recess, prorogation, etc. See adjournment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
  • noun. Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
  • noun. Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.
  • noun. The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
  • noun. The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.
  • noun. The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.
  • noun. The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.
  • noun. Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.
  • noun. Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal.
  • noun. Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
  • noun. Dissolving, or going into solution.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the process of going into solution
  • noun. the termination of a meeting
  • noun. dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
  • noun. the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
  • noun. separation into component parts