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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(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.

Society had need of further

disintegration

before it could begin to reconstruct itself locally.

Motley.

Noun.

The act of separating integrant parts of a substance, as distinguished from decomposition or the separation of constituent parts.