He called these systems dissipative systems, because they are formed and maintained by the dissipative processes that exchange energy between the system and its environment, and because they disappear if that exchange ceases.
On je nazvao takve sistema disipativnim sistemima, pošto se oni formiraju i održavaju pomoću disipativnih procesa kojima se razmenjuje energija između sistema i okoline, i pošto oni nestaju ako se ta razmena prekine.