disgregation

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disgregation

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Borrowed from Latin disgregātiō, from dis- (“apart”) + grex (“flock”).

The thermodynamics sense was introduced in 1862 by German physicist Rudolf Clausius in his formulation of what is now called the second law of thermodynamics.

noun disgregations

  1. countable, uncountable Separation; scattering. 2006, Raquel Hervás, Pablo Gervás, Agent-Based Solutions for Natural Language Generation Tasks, Roque Marín, Eva Onaindía, Alberto Buarín, José Santos (editors), Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence: 11th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2005, Springer,
  2. countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable A measure of the separation of the particles of a system; an early formulation of entropy. 1868, R. Clausius, On the Second Fundamental Theorem of the Mechanical Theory of Heat, [1867, Lecture to the German Scientific Association], The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, page 408, The disgregation of a body is consequently, among the three states o

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