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disgregation

noun

Etymology

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.

  1. borrowed from disgregātiō

Definitions

  1. Separation

    Separation; scattering.

    • Nevertheless, food processors could obtain gains for conventional products after market disgregation.
    • […]they are granted a privileged point of view in the disgregation of subjectivity in Antonioni; and after La dolce vita they become a prismatic aggregate of male neuroses in Fellini, like a parade of everted obsessions put on display.

  2. A measure of the separation of the particles of a system

    A measure of the separation of the particles of a system; an early formulation of entropy.

    • The gas, however, may experience the same changes of volume and disgregation in another manner.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for disgregation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA