All 3 Uses of
dissolution
in
Atlas Shrugged
- When the green light of a signal appeared by the track, it gave them a point to reach and pass, but-incongruous in the midst of the floating dissolution-it brought them no sense of relief.†
Chpt 2.10 *
- In whatever silent crumbling had gone on at the distant headquarters, in the slow dissolution of a great airline company, the Sanders monoplane had been forgotten-as assets of this nature were being forgotten everywhere …. as the model of the motor had been forgotten on a junk pile and, left in plain sight, had conveyed nothing to the inheritors and the takers-over…… There were no rules to tell the young attendant whether he was expected to keep the Sanders plane or not.†
Chpt 2.10
- The rest was a blur of shapeless dissolution, half-acid, half fog.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(dissolution) to end a relationship or meeting; or to terminate a legal entity such as a corporation
or in chemistry: the process in which one substance is dissolved in another; or the separation of a compound into its components by chemical action