Relating to or causing dissipation; tending to scatter, disperse, or waste energy.
From dissipate + -ive (adjective suffix meaning 'relating to' or 'tending to'). Used especially in physics and engineering.
A dissipative system in physics is one where energy constantly leaks away as heat—our universe itself is dissipative, slowly losing usable energy!
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