disintegration

IPA: dɪsɪntʌgrˈeɪʃʌn

A process by which anything disintegrates.
The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
(geology) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
(nuclear physics) The process of radioactive decay.
The radioactive decay of a single atom.

Examples of "disintegration" in Sentences

I find its slow disintegration from the back rather worrying too.
ALS, known to many as Lou Gehrig's disease, is characterized by the disintegration of nerve cells, which are no longer able to send messages to muscles.
In this charming and wistful novel about a family in disintegration, a young girl discovers to her distress that she can taste the emotions of those who prepare what she eats.
In his estimation, the federal government should be focused on what happens after the pull-out in 2011 and paying more attention to what he calls the disintegration of Pakistan.
Apple will continue to own Nokia & Samsung and maybe even RIM until the old guard belatedly tries to correct course. watching Nokia and Samsung feels to me like watching GM and Ford, only this disintegration is happening at higher speed.
EDN technical editor Paul Rako is working on a January cover story on what he calls disintegration-not stuff falling apart, but rather the idea that it's not always a good idea to cram more and more into a single IC. As Paul puts it, "There has been a historical tradition in electronics to integrate as many functions as possible into one chip," but his article looks at cases where "dis-integrating chips" is preferable.