Diffraction and Dissolution

noun

• When light passes sharp edges or goes through narrow slits the rays are deflected and produce fringes of light and dark bands. .

(n.) The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.

noun

• Separation into component parts.
  • synonyms: disintegration
• The process of going into solution.
  • usage: "the dissolving of salt in water"
  • synonyms: dissolving
• Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure.
  • synonyms: profligacy, dissipation, licentiousness, looseness
• The termination of a meeting.
  • synonyms: adjournment
• The termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations. ).
  • synonyms: breakup

• (n.) Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.
• (n.) The state of being dissolved or of undergoing liquefaction.
• (n.) The act of dissolving, sundering or separating into component parts; separation.
• (n.) Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.
• (n.) Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
• (n.) The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
• (n.) The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.
• (n.) Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness.
• (n.) The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.

DISSOLUTION is the act of ending, terminating or winding-up a company or state of affairs. For example, when the life of a company is ended by normal legal means, it is said to be "dissolved". The same is said of marriage or partnerships which, by dissolution, ends the legal relationship between those persons formally joined by the marriage or partnership.