disgregations

Noun

disgregation (countable and uncountable, plural disgregations)

1. Separation; scattering.
   • If the first one is called before the second one, very few disgregations will be performed on the text, since the concepts initially have no associated list of attributes.2006, Raquel Hervás, Pablo Gervás, Agent-Based Solutions for Natural Language Generation Tasks, Roque Marín, Eva Onaindía, Alberto Buarín, José Santos (editors), Current Topics in Artificial...
2. (historical, obsolete) A measure of the separation of the particles of a system; an early formulation of entropy.
   • The disgregation of a body is consequently, among the three states of aggregation, least in the solid state, greater in the liquid state, and greatest of all in the gaseous state. In the last condition it can still be increased by the molecules separating further from each other—that is, by the gas...
   • By help of this conception the effect of heat can be simply expressed by saying that heat tends to increase the disgregation of bodies.1868, R. Clausius, On the Second Fundamental Theorem of the Mechanical Theory of Heat, [1867, Lecture to the German Scientific Association], The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine...