Dissolution  

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1. The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal.
2. Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
3. Dissolving, or going into solution.

Dissolution or dissolve may also refer to:

• Dissolution (law), in law, means to end a legal entity or agreement such as a marriage, adoption, or corporation
• Dissolution (chemistry), or solvation, in chemistry, the process of dissolving a solid substance into a solvent to make a solution
• Dissolution of parliament, in politics, the dismissal of a legislature so that fresh elections can be held, sometimes ahead of 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 1538 and 1541
  • Dissolution of the Monasteries, England and Wales
  • List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
  • Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act 1535
  • Tudor conquest of Ireland
• Dissolution (novel), a 2002 fantasy novel by Richard Lee Byers
• Dissolution (Sansom novel), a 2003 historical novel by C. J. Sansom
• Dissolve (filmmaking), in film and video editing, a transition between scenes
• Decadence, moral degeneracy