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Definition of disintegration

noun

[mass noun]
  • 1the process of losing cohesion or strength:the twin problems of economic failure and social disintegration
  • 2the process of coming to pieces:the disintegration of infected cells
  • Physics a process in which a nucleus or other subatomic particle emits a smaller particle or divides into smaller particles.

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