disgregation

Meaning

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

Synonyms

dispersion

break up

decentralization

discrete

disperse

dissemination

divergence

divergent

straggling

stray

deconcentration

peptization

breakup

scatter dispersion

Translations

disgregazione

désagrégation

difusió

disseminació

disgregació

Auflösung

Streuung

Ausbreitung

Verbreitung

Auflockerung

Eindringen in eine Substanz

Verstreuen

Verstreuung

Verzettelung

dispersió

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.