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Disintegration vs Annihilation - What's the difference?

disintegration | annihilation |

As nouns the difference between disintegration and annihilation

is that disintegration is a process by which anything disintegrates while annihilation is annihilation.

disintegration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A process by which anything disintegrates.
  • The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
  • (geology) A wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.

    • Related terms

    * disintegrative * integration

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    annihilation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.
  • The state of being annihilated.
  • (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.

    • Related terms

    () * annihilate * annihilator * annihilable * annihilative

    Synonyms

    * (act of reducing to nothing) extinction, eradication * (state of being annihilated) extinction

    Antonyms

    * (act of reducing to nothing) creation, generation * (state of being annihilated) generation

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