<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.</li><li>the resulting state.</li><li>the undoing or breaking of a bond, tie, union, partnership, etc.</li><li>the breaking up of an assembly or organization; dismissal; dispersal.</li><li>an order issued by the head of a state terminating a parliament and necessitating a new election.</li><li>death; decease.</li><li>a bringing or coming to an end; disintegration; decay; termination.</li><li>legal termination, especially of business activity, with the final distribution of assets, the fixing of liabilities, etc.</li><li>the process by which a solid, gas, or liquid is dispersed homogeneously in a gas, solid, or, especially, a liquid.</li></ul>