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disintegration

How to use disintegration in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for disintegration.

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The cause is the disintegration of the black nuclear family.

Examples11
Definitions5
Parts of speech1

Quick take

in a decomposed state

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of disintegration gathered in one view.

noun

in a decomposed state

noun

a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system; "a disintegration of personality"

noun

separation into component parts

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for disintegration.

noun

a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system; "a disintegration of personality"

noun

separation into component parts

noun

the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation

noun

total destruction; "bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll"

Example sentences

1

The cause is the disintegration of the black nuclear family.

2

Side issue, but this bit in the article is not quite right:There are technical terms for this kind of disintegration.

3

A few people die in the storm itself, but then hundreds or thousands die in the human-made chaos and disintegration afterward.

4

One would expect them to mainly be smoke and dust from the disintegration/combustion/ablation during the descent.

5

Dbrowski saw these disintegrations as a key element in the overall developmental process.

6

Personally, I will watch the disintegration of these naive "meritocratic" policies with great interest in the coming years.

7

But the white Sugru has worked perfectly for more than a year now, without any disintegration, loss of flexibility, discoloration, or additional fraying.

8

... For example, the Space Shuttle flight computers initially used core memory, which preserved the contents of memory even through the Challenger's disintegration and subsequent plunge into the sea in 1986.

9

Actually, from what I understood from listing to a TTC lecture series about this, the "decline and fall" of the roman empire is somewhat of a fiction, in that it wasn't a brutal event, more of a long slow disintegration over the span of a thousand years.

10

And it would imply it happened without bloodshed and because people chose it as a simply superior option, which if the negative scaremongering aspects of the disintegration of the state actually started to manifest, would not happen by definition.

11

Official encouragement of policies contributing to the socio-economic disintegration of the family.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use disintegration in a sentence?

The cause is the disintegration of the black nuclear family.

What does disintegration mean?

in a decomposed state

What part of speech is disintegration?

disintegration is commonly used as noun.