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Noun:

  • A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
  • A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
  • physics A loss of energy as heat from a dynamic system
  • The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

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