Disgregation

Quick meaning: Disgregation is a noun meaning Separation; scattering.

Meaning

Separation; scattering.

More Meanings

1. (thermodynamics, obsolete or historical) A measure of the separation of the particles of a system; an early formulation of entropy.

Example Sentences

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

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.

Since the increase of disgregation is the action by means of which heat performs work, it follows that the quantity of work must bear a definite ratio to the quantity by which the disgregation is increased; we will therefore fix the still arbitrary determination of the magnitude of disgregation so that, at any given temperature, the increase of disgregation shall be proportional to the work which the heat can thereby perform.

Word Forms

• disgregations

Antonyms for disgregation

Common opposites include aggregation, congregation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disseverance, disseverment, disseveration, scatter, depart, departure.

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