Meaning of DISINTEGRATION
| Pronunciation: | | dis`intu'greyshun
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- [n] total destruction; "bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll"
- [n] the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
- [n] separation into component parts
- [n] in a decomposed state
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| | Synonyms: | | annihilation, decay, decomposition, dissolution, radioactive decay |
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| | See Also: | | action, activity, decay, demolition, destruction, extermination, extinction, fibrinolysis, fragmentation, lysis, natural action, natural process, nuclear reaction | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*in`te*gra"tion\, n.
(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.
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| | Related Terms: | | abrasion, amiable weakness, atomization, attrition, beating, biodegradability, biodegradation, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakability, breakup, brecciation, brittleness, carnage, changeableness, collapse, comminution, consumption, corrosion, corruption, crack-up, crumbling, crushing, daintiness, damnation, deactivation, decay, decimation, decomposition, degradability, degradation, delicacy, demobilization, depredation, derangement, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destructibility, destruction, detachment, detrition, devastation, diaspora, diffusion, dilapidation, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, disbandment, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disharmony, dishevelment, disjunction, dismissal, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, disproportion, disruption, dissolution, disturbance, effeminacy, entropy, exfoliation, flimsiness, fragility, fragmentation, frailty, frangibility, granulation, granulization, grating, grinding, haphazardness, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, human frailty, incoherence, indecisiveness, indiscriminateness, infirmity of will, inharmonious harmony, inherent vice, irregularity, irresolution, levigation, lightness, mashing, mildew, mold, moral weakness, most admired disorder, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, oxidation, oxidization, parting, perdition, perturbation, pounding, powdering, promiscuity, promiscuousness, randomness, ravage, release, resolution, revolution, ruin, ruination, rust, scaling, scattering, separation, shambles, shattering, shredding, slaughter, sleaziness, slightness, smashing, split-up, spoilage, spoliation, trituration, turbulence, undoing, unsubstantiality, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, vandalism, velleity, waste, wispiness, womanishness, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck |
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