disintegration

About 3.70 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A process by which anything disintegrates.
2. noun The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
3. noun The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
4. noun The process of radioactive decay. The radioactive decay of a single atom.

   The sample exhibited an activity of three disintegrations per second.

5. noun The radioactive decay of a single atom.

   The sample exhibited an activity of three disintegrations per second.

Similar words

annihilation decay dissolution radioactive decay decomposition break fragmentation dismantlement dismantling dismemberment

Often followed by

of and in is or that which was by

Word family

disintegrations