disgregation

Meaning

Noun

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

Related

Opposite words

• aggregation, congregation

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin disgregātiō, from dis- + grex.
• 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.