disintegration
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6.2
- noun
- /ˌdɪsɪnˈtɪɡreɪʃən/
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desintegración
- The scientist studied the disintegration of the ancient rocks to understand the Earth's history.
- social disintegration
- family disintegration
- cultural disintegration
It's the final material step between just disintegration and it's right at the edge of identity and materiality.
- It's the final material step between just disintegration and it's right at the edge of identity and materiality.
Examples
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Historians have not avidly pursued the important issues reflected in the disintegration of the Jeffersonian Republican Party.
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For all the greatness of their architecture, scholarship, and literature, traditional Islamic societies were prey to disintegration.
Academic text (2008) -
Consider various environmental problems that might result from the disintegration of space vehicles and satellites.
Academic text (1994) -
Closed family systems change usually only in response to their almost complete disintegration or to intervention from the outside.
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Such practices have led to social and cultural disintegration rather than integration.
Academic text (1995) -
Instead, four environmental and strategic factors account for the disintegration of the leftist and center unions.
Academic text (1999) -
In The Double, Dostoevsky described the sickness and disintegration of one human personality.
Academic text (1992) -
Second, in addition to the disintegration of Iraq, Israel is deeply involved in the issue of Kurdish autonomy.
Academic text (2001) -
This path, if continued, guarantees that we will pass tipping points leading to ice sheet disintegration that will accelerate out of control of future generations.
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To Russia devolved the nuclear mantle following the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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1.7
To cause something to fall into pieces or become damaged
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3.6
A separation into parts when something falls apart
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5.3
Breaking dead plants and animals into simpler material by bacteria and fungi
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6.8
The official ending of a group like a partnership or parliament
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4.1
A process in which a substance is broken into simpler parts by chemicals or living things
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4.2
Breaking something into many small pieces with sudden force
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4.4
The act of taking a machine or system apart
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3.9
Breaking something into small pieces by force
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6.3
Breaking something into small pieces, often by force
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4.9
A split into parts along natural lines, for example in rocks or cells
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4.6
An act of wood breaking that sends out small sharp pieces
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5.9
The act of taking a machine or building apart into separate parts
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5.2
To take something apart, often a machine, so you can fix or check it
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4.4
Damage that makes something in pieces or not usable
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4.1
Taking something apart to study or remove its parts
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7.0
A chemical process in which a molecule breaks into smaller parts or ions
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9.8
The cutting or splitting of something into parts
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5.0
Separating things that were joined before, for example train cars
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7.9
Breaking a whole into smaller separate parts
Parts that were held together come apart
Separation of parts that are normally joined in a structure or machine
The process of breaking into small pieces and falling apart
The act of dividing something into parts or groups
To destroy material by breaking it into very tiny pieces
Cells break down complex substances to release energy
Antonyms
How Broken
Surface Forms
Morphology
disintegration = disintegrate (transparent) = dis + integrate + ion
This is a standard noun formation from the verb 'disintegrate', meaning the process or result of disintegrating.
Etymology
Disintegration is built from dis- 'apart' and integrate from integer 'whole', so it means 'making something not whole'. That image fits physical breaking or decay: when a material falls into pieces and loses its wholeness, we call that disintegration.