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disintegration

  • /dɪs.ɪn.tɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/ UK
  • /dɪsˌɪnd.əˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/ US
  • [dɪsˌɪn.əˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən] US

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From disintegrate + -ion or dis- + integration.

noun disintegrations

  1. countable, uncountable A process by which anything disintegrates. A Pan American World Airways, Inc., B-707-321B, N761PA, experienced an explosive disintegration of the third stage turbine disk of the No. 4 engine at approximately 1410 P.d.t, June 28, 1965. The accident occurred shortly after takeoff from San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, Califor
  2. countable, uncountable The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
  3. countable, uncountable The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
  4. countable, uncountable The process of radioactive decay.
  5. countable, uncountable The radioactive decay of a single atom. The sample exhibited an activity of three disintegrations per second.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: annihilation, decay, dissolution, radioactive decay, decomposition, break, fragmentation, dismantlement, dismantling, dismemberment, shattering, collapse, breakup, destruction, fall, break-up

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noun a process by which anything disintegrates

Españoldesintegración
हिन्दीविघटन vighṭan
Portuguêsdesintegração
Françaisdésintégration
DeutschZerfall
Italianodisintegrazione
Românădezintegrare
Русскийраспа́д raspád, разложе́ние razložénije, дезинтегра́ция dezintegrácija

noun the condition of anything which has disintegrated

Portuguêsdesintegração

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@misc{disintegration_2026,
  title = {disintegration},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/disintegration},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}