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UK
/dˌɪsˌɪntɪɡɹˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /dɪˌsɪnəˈɡɹeɪʃən, dɪˌsɪntəˈɡɹeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /dɪˌsɪnəˈɡɹeɪʃən, dɪˌsɪntəˈɡɹeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system
a disintegration of personality - in a decomposed state
- the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
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total destruction
bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll - separation into component parts
How To Use disintegration In A Sentence
- A disintegration per second is also known as a Becquerel (Bq).
- Instead of a crime-does-not-pay melodrama, the play became an acute study of marital and psychological disintegration
- from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration
- Internationally, there is widespread concern with a break down in community values in developed countries and unacceptable levels of isolation, loneliness and social disintegration, to which Ireland is not immune.
- The nuclei of larger sunspots sometimes undergo disintegration or splitting into several parts.
- The disintegration of the nucleus produces one alpha particle.
- They are born in relatively short periods after long periods of social disintegration.
- Here the devouring jaw is a symbol of corporeal disintegration; it reverses the process of reintegrating the perfected body and soul at the time of the Resurrection.
- The implant is electrically isolated from active participation in the electrolytic disintegration which occurs when a current is applied to the wire.
- We have the disintegration of the shuttle orbiter.
