"disgregation" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007, Christopher L. Hughes, New Research on Politics and Economics of Europe, Nova Science Publishers, page vii:",
          "text": "Nevertheless, food processors could obtain gains for conventional products after market disgregation.",
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          "text": "[…]they are granted a privileged point of view in the disgregation of subjectivity in Antonioni; and after La dolce vita they become a prismatic aggregate of male neuroses in Fellini, like a parade of everted obsessions put on display.",
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          "text": "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 and Journal of Science, page 408,\nThe 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 expanding to a larger volume. In like manner, the decomposition of a chemically compound body into its elements is in general accompanied by an increase of disgregation.\nBy help of this conception the effect of heat can be simply expressed by saying that heat tends to increase the disgregation of bodies."
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          "ref": "1880, Robert Röntgen, The Principles of Thermodynamics: With Special Applications to Hot-air, Gas and Steam Engines, J. Wiley, page 95:",
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          "text": "Since the increase of disgregation is the action by means of which heat performs work, it follows that the quantity of work must bear a definite ratio to the quantity by which the disgregation is increased; we will therefore fix the still arbitrary determination of the magnitude of disgregation so that, at any given temperature, the increase of disgregation shall be proportional to the work which the heat can thereby perform.",
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