English Explanatory Dictionary

disgregation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Separation; scattering.
  2. A measure of the separation of the particles of a system; an early formulation of entropy.

Word forms

disgregation disgregations

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin disgregātiō, from dis- (“apart”) + grex (“flock”). The thermodynamics sense was introduced in 1862 by German physicist Rudolf Clausius in his formulation of what is now called the second law of thermodynamics.

Antonyms

aggregation congregation
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