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disintegration

Pronunciation: /dɪs.ɪn.tɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/

The English word “disintegration” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A process by which anything disintegrates.
  2. The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
  3. The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
  4. The process of radioactive decay.
  5. The radioactive decay of a single atom.

Etymology

From disintegrate + -ion or dis- + integration.

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