• (a.) Tending to dissipate.
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qualifies a passive circuit element or a passive circuit for which the time integral of the instantaneous power is positive over any time interval containing the instant of the first supply of electric energy NOTE - Under periodic conditions, the integration interval can comprise an integral number of periods instead of beginning at minus infinity....
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Dis'si·pa·tive adjective Tending to dissipate.
Dissipative system (Mech.) ,
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 ...
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