Dissolution and Devolution

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.

noun

• The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality.
  • synonyms: degeneration
• The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government. ).
  • synonyms: devolvement

• (n.) The act of rolling down.
• (n.) Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor.

DEVOLUTION is the delegation of authority from higher to lower levels.