Disintegration

Disintegration
Disintegration Dis*in`te*gra"tion, n. (a) The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated. Specifically (b) (Geol.) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc. [1913 Webster]

Society had need of further disintegration before it could begin to reconstruct itself locally. --Motley. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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