Dissolution

Dissolution or Dissolve may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Dissolution (album), an album by Olivia Block
• Dissolution
• Dissolution (Forgotten Realms novel), a 2002 fantasy novel by Richard Lee Byers
• Dissolution (Sansom novel), a 2003 historical novel by C. J. Sansom
• Dissolution, in music, is a specific type of section (music).
• The Dissolve, a web magazine property of Pitchfork, covering movies
• Dissolve (filmmaking), in film and video editing, a transition between scenes

Politics and law

• Dissolution (law), in law, means to end a legal entity or agreement such as a marriage, adoption, or corporation, or unions.
• Dissolution of parliament, in politics, the dismissal of a legislature so that fresh elections can be held, sometimes ahead of schedule. And sometimes behind schedule
  • Dissolution of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Dissolution of the Monasteries, in British history, the formal process during the English Reformation by which Henry VIII confiscated the property of the monastic institutions in England, Wales and Ireland between 1536 and 1541
  • List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
  • Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act 1535
  • Tudor conquest of Ireland

Science

• Dissolution (chemistry), in chemistry, the process of dissolving a solute into a solvent to make a solution

• Solubility or the dissolution of solids in a solute

Other

• Decadence, moral degeneracy
• In Hindu cosmology, the Great Dissolution, Pralaya
• Zersetzung, a psychological technique to silence political opponents