单词 | disintegrate |
释义 | disintegrateadj. rare. Disintegrated. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [adjective] > incohesive > relating to disintegration > disintegrated squandered1647 disintegrated1794 disintegrate1875 1875 G. MacDonald Malcolm III. x. 147 The disintegrate returns to resting and capable form. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019). disintegratev. 1. a. transitive. To separate into its component parts or particles; to reduce to fragments, break up, destroy the cohesion or integrity of (as by mechanical or atmospheric action). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > cause bad condition in [verb (transitive)] > cause to decompose, crumble, or melt away dissolvec1384 consume1585 break1597 moulder1603 moulter1636 discoagulatea1658 open1686 disintegrate1794 decompose1841 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > separate into constituents [verb (transitive)] resolvea1398 analyse1606 untwist1611 refract1646 disband1695 decomposea1751 decompounda1751 to break up1751 disintegrate1794 to break down1859 dissociate1869 factor1958 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 99 Marlites..are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vii. 49 The adjacent rocks..were disintegrated. 1864 Daily Tel. 20 Sept. Most valuable for the purpose of blasting or disintegrating rocks. 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure xxii. 333 Bricks..entirely disintegrated by the corrosive influence of the London atmosphere. b. To separate or break off as particles or fragments from the whole mass or body. ΚΠ 1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab iii. 40 The detached blocks, which have been disintegrated from the mass. 1876 J. S. Brewer Eng. Stud. (1881) ii. 57 ‘Their personal adventures’..cannot be disintegrated from the general body of our history without blurring its lineaments. c. To cause (a substance or an atom or nucleus) to undergo disintegration. ΚΠ 1920 Rutherford in Proc. Royal Soc. A. 97 394 Possibly the actual energy required to disintegrate the atom is small compared with the energy of the α-particle. 1920 Rutherford in Proc. Royal Soc. A. 97 395 No evidence has been obtained to show that helium can be disintegrated by the swift α-particles. 1932 Cockcroft & Walton in Proc. Royal Soc. A. 137 229 We describe experiments which show that protons having energies above 150,000 volts are capable of disintegrating a considerable number of elements. 1942 J. D. Stranathan ‘Particles’ of Mod. Physics v. 183 With these energetic particles it has become a relatively easy matter to disintegrate almost any atom. 2. a. intransitive (for reflexive). To become disintegrated, to break up. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > decompose, crumble, or melt away melteOE fleetc1384 dissolvec1420 unbindc1450 loosec1480 moulder1531 mirtlec1540 mould1542 moulter1568 mutter1609 mosker1612 disband1633 dust1636 dissipatea1676 deliquesce1792 decompose1793 disintegrate1817 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > undergo separation into constituents [verb (intransitive)] > cease to cohere > disintegrate flitter1548 to fall apart1761 disintegrate1817 1817 R. Jameson tr. G. Cuvier Ess. Theory Earth (ed. 3) 323 On exposure to the weather it [sc. chalk marl] rapidly disintegrates. 1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) ix. 349 The absorption of oxygen and carbonic acid from the air causes rocks..to disintegrate. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 336 The Church itself was fast disintegrating. b. Of a nucleus or particle, or a radioactive substance: to undergo disintegration (see disintegration n. a); to decay (see decay v. 2c). ΚΠ 1904 F. Soddy Radio-activity viii. 122 In the case of the disintegrating atoms the cause of the disintegration is at present unknown. It proceeds at a definite rate, a fixed fraction of the total atoms disintegrating in the unit of time, without hindrance or acceleration by any agency known... The internal energy of the chemical atom becomes for the first time knowable when it disintegrates. 1926 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity i. 4 We now define a substance as being radioactive when the atoms of which it is composed disintegrate spontaneously. 1942 Ann. Reg. 1941 351 Those mesons born practically at rest disintegrate in the stratosphere into electrons. 1962 H. D. Bush Atomic & Nucl. Physics iv. 73 Which nuclei disintegrate in a particular time interval is a matter of chance. 1963 S. Tolansky Introd. Atomic Physics (ed. 5) xix. 321 Yukawa..postulated that the meson can spontaneously disintegrate, being in this sense radioactive. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1875v.1794 |
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