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Disintegration

Dis-inˊte-gra′tion

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Noun.
(a)
The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated.
Specifically
(b)
(Geol.)
The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
Society had need of further
disintegration
before it could begin to reconstruct itself locally.
Motley.

Webster 1828 Edition


Disintegration

DISINTEGRATION

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Noun.
The act of separating integrant parts of a substance, as distinguished from decomposition or the separation of constituent parts.

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disintegration

disintegration

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disintegration (plural disintegrations)

  1. A process by which anything disintegrates.
  2. The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
  3. (geology) A wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.

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