unconsolidationn.
/ˌʌnkənˌsɒlᵻˈdeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌənkənˌsɑləˈdeɪʃ(ə)n/ The process of becoming less consolidated or of reversing consolidation; separation, dissociation; division.
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1867 H. Spencer First Princ. (ed. 2) ii. xii. §94. 281 That increase of internal motion involves a progressing unconsolidation.
1937 Jefferson City (Missouri) Post-Tribune 15 Sept. 1/3 The ‘unconsolidation’ bill..split the offices of collector and treasurer.
2016 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. Pakistan 38 578/1 Lahore is built on an undulating loess plain..from the late Pleistocene with mounds and low alluvial plains that are a result of more recent unconsolidation and aggradation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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