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dissipator

dissipator noun: one who, or that which, dissipates something.

Noun

dissipator (plural dissipators)

  1. One who, or that which, dissipates something.
    • The Population Factor is a dissipator or swamper of the gain in per capita income and hence of the redressal of poverty to that degree.1991, Kedar Nath Prasad, India's Rural Problems, page 38

Forms of dissipator

pluraldissipators
alternative formdissipater

Origin of dissipator

From dissipate + -or.

Questions about dissipator

What does dissipator mean?
Dissipator means one who, or that which, dissipates something.
What part of speech is dissipator?
Dissipator is a noun.
What is the plural of dissipator?
The plural of dissipator is dissipators.

Words near dissipator in the dictionary

  1. dissipations
  2. dissipative
  3. dissipatively
  4. dissipativeness
  5. dissipativities
  6. dissipator
  7. dissipators
  8. dissipatory
  9. dissite
  10. disslander
  11. disso

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