discoherev.
/ˌdɪskə(ʊ)ˈhɪə/, U.S. /ˌdɪskoʊˈhɪr/ 1. intransitive. To cease to cohere; to break or fall apart (literal and figurative).
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > undergo separation into constituents [verb (intransitive)] > cease to cohere
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1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) xxxix. 605 Earth's elements discohere.
1910 Ohio Teacher June 496 The clapper strikes against the coherer and causes the filings to discohere.
1954 W. Faulkner Fable (1955) 31 [The malleable mass] has relinquished, dis-cohered..flowing..back to its own base anonymity.
2003 J. J. Cohen Medieval Identity Machines iii. 93 Lancelot is pushing knightly identity to its extreme, to that limit at which it begins to discohere.
2. transitive and intransitive. = decohere v. rare. Now disused.
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1899 Standard 8 May 3/1 The current causes a small hammer to strike the coherer and to cause the filings to discohere, so that the circuit may be completed and broken at will.
1902 U.S. Patent 700,161 2/1 Magnetic action aids the mechanical shaking action of the said electromagnet for discohering the cohering powder.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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