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Disintegration is the eighth studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure , released on 2 May 1989 by Fiction Records . The record marks a return to the introspective and gloomy gothic rock style the band had established in the early 1980s. As ...
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n. 1 A process by which anything disintegrates. 2 The condition of anything which has disintegrated. 3 (context geology English) A wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
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n. in a decomposed state [syn: decomposition ] separation into component parts [syn: dissolution ] the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation [syn: decay , radioactive decay ] total destruction; ...
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Disintegration \Dis*in`te*gra"tion\, n. The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated. Specifically (Geol.) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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1796, noun of action from disintegrate .
Usage examples of disintegration.
When Hugh found the telegram from Bids on his bunk at Prospect Yards, he had a feeling of disintegration.
After more than a century of constant disintegration, division, and disunification, of a constant crisis arising from the autopathic Culture-disease of rationalist-materialism, the Culture came back once more to health and soundness, to Authority and Faith.
So far the draglines had found a battered trunk, several trees, fishing nets, a sack of garbage weighted with bricks, part of an old cement mixer, three tires, and a sunken boat that was on the verge of complete disintegration.
Compared to this irreparable disintegration of the empire, temporary schisms such as the Omayyad Khalifate in Spain, the Fatimid Khalifate in Egypt, and here and there an independent organization of the Kharijites were of little significance.
They had, moreover, to economize their shrinking manpower, and their reserves were being called off from all the Eastern fronts to more urgent tasks elsewhere, leaving Russia to stew in its own disintegration.
The scattered boulders that had fallen from above and lay upon or partly buried in the turf, were the only indication that any disintegration of the massive, towering pile of rocks ever had taken place.
I reject the doctrine of State sovereignty, which I held and defended from 1828 to 1861, but still maintain that the sovereignty of the American Republic vests in the States, though in the States collectively, or united, not severally, and thus escape alike consolidation and disintegration.
Perhaps, if they had recognized and studied the constitution which preceded that drawn up by the Convention of 1787, and which is intrinsic, inherent in the republic itself, they would have seen that it solves the problem, and asserts national unity without consolidation, and the rights of the several States without danger of disintegration.
He rebels and erupts in a serious of self-defeating and self-destructive behaviours, which lead to the disintegration of his life.
The frequent migrations of the barbarians and the ensuing wars only hastened the division of the gentes into separate families, while the dispersing of stems and their mingling with strangers offered singular facilities for the ultimate disintegration of those unions which were based upon kinship.
It vibrated inside him and overwhelmed the air around himhorrible, of coursemuch more than meaningless noise, her madness in its waveforms and repetitions occupying his body, madness measured in cycles per second, her willful disintegration taking over his mind.
As the air shrilled through the spiracles on its sides, as its eyes seemed to bulge from the immobile plating on its round head, it struggled to control the emotion that hurried disintegration nearer.
The slow grinding of two great world powers against each other had nurtured it, had held it in, and after the disintegration of one of them and the rise of fundamentalism in a dozen little countires, Senator Bartlett had come out of nowhere to give it vent.
Buddhist monk for his anti-Buddhist policies the centralised monarchy fell apart into an age of feudal disintegration.
His callousness to the danger of his country's disintegration, from the incessant, becoming overt, attacks of a foreign priesthood might-- an indignant great lady's precipitation to prophecy said would--bring chastisement on him.