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DISSOLUTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
Synonyms:
breakup; dissolution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("dissolution" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dissolution"):
splitsville (separation or breakup or divorce)
annulment; invalidation ((law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc))
Derivation:
dissolve (bring the association of to an end or cause to break up)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The termination of a meeting
Synonyms:
adjournment; dissolution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("dissolution" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)
Derivation:
dissolve (bring the association of to an end or cause to break up)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
Synonyms:
dissipation; dissolution; licentiousness; looseness; profligacy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("dissolution" is a kind of...):
intemperance; intemperateness; self-indulgence (excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Separation into component parts
Synonyms:
disintegration; dissolution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("dissolution" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dissolution"):
fibrinolysis (a normal ongoing process that dissolves fibrin and results in the removal of small blood clots)
lysis ((biochemistry) dissolution or destruction of cells such as blood cells or bacteria)
Derivation:
dissolve (bring the association of to an end or cause to break up)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The process of going into solution
Example:
the dissolving of salt in water
Synonyms:
dissolution; dissolving
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("dissolution" is a kind of...):
liquefaction (the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid)
Derivation:
dissolve (pass into a solution)
dissolve (cause to go into a solution)
Context examples:
But even his tremendous will could not overcome the dissolution that assailed it. That will of his was breaking down. He was fainting.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
What's more, the formation and dissolution temperatures could be independently controlled by controlling the ratios of disordered and ordered segments in the biomaterial.
(Biomaterial Artificial Protein Helps Heal Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Although its mechanism of action is not completely understood, pamidronate appears to adsorb to calcium phosphate crystals in bone, blocking their dissolution by inhibiting osteoclast-mediated bone resorption.
(Pamidronate disodium, NCI Thesaurus)
The process in which one material is retained by another, including, but not limited to the physical dissolution of a gas, liquid, or solid in a liquid, a gas or liquid in a solid, attachment of molecules of a gas, vapor, liquid, or dissolved substance to a solid surface by physical forces.
(Material Absorption, NCI Thesaurus)
I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame, or one flavour of remorse were detected; and I do not want sacrifice, sorrow, dissolution—such is not my taste.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I lingered but a moment at the mirror: the second and conclusive experiment had yet to be attempted; it yet remained to be seen if I had lost my identity beyond redemption and must flee before daylight from a house that was no longer mine; and hurrying back to my cabinet, I once more prepared and drank the cup, once more suffered the pangs of dissolution, and came to myself once more with the character, the stature and the face of Henry Jekyll.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
You will allow, that in both, man has the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal; that in both, it is an engagement between man and woman, formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into, they belong exclusively to each other till the moment of its dissolution; that it is their duty, each to endeavour to give the other no cause for wishing that he or she had bestowed themselves elsewhere, and their best interest to keep their own imaginations from wandering towards the perfections of their neighbours, or fancying that they should have been better off with anyone else.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
A solid, semi-solid, solution or suspension composed of active and/or inert ingredient(s) covered with or contained within a polymeric matrix such that dissolution is determined by the solubility rate of the given polymer.
(Dissolution Controlled Extended Release Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)
In lispro insulin, the amino acid proline at B-28 and the amino acid lysine at B-29 are reversed, resulting in the rapid dissolution of this insulin to a monomer that is absorbed rapidly after subcutaneous administration.
(Insulin Lispro, NCI Thesaurus)
