Disintegration

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  • noun. The act or process of disintegrating.
  • noun. The state of being disintegrated.
  • noun. The natural or induced transformation of an atomic nucleus from a more massive to a less massive configuration by the emission of particles or radiation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of separating the component particles of a substance, as distinguished from decomposition or the separation of its elements; destruction of the cohesion of constituent parts; specifically, in geol, the wearing down of rocks, resulting chiefly from the slow action of frosts, rains, and other atmospheric influences.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated.
  • noun. The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A process by which anything disintegrates.
  • noun. The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
  • noun. A wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
  • noun. total destruction
  • noun. a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system
  • noun. separation into component parts
  • noun. in a decomposed state
  • Word Usage
    "In his estimation, the federal government should be focused on what happens after the pull-out in 2011 and paying more attention to what he calls the disintegration of Pakistan."
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