Zerfall
German
Etymology
Back-formation from zerfallen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tsɛɐ̯ˈfal/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Zer‧fall
- Rhymes: -al
Noun
Zerfall m (strong, genitive Zerfalles or Zerfalls, plural Zerfälle)
- disintegration, collapse, breakup, dissolution
- Zerfall Jugoslawiens ― breakup of Yugoslavia
- Zerfall der Sowjetunion ― dissolution of the Soviet Union
- decay
- 1931, Gebhard Mehring, Schrift und Schrifttum, Silberburg-Verlag, page 13:
- Der Zerfall des Römerreiches raubte der Stadt Rom die alte Stellung als Mittelpunkt alles Geschehens.
- The decay of the Roman empire robbed the city of Rome of the old position as the center of all that was happening.
- (physics) decay
Declension
Hyponyms
- Alphazerfall
- Betazerfall
- Atomzerfall
- radioaktiver Zerfall
Related terms
- Zerfallsbeginn
- Zerfallsbeschleunigung
- Zerfallsdauer
- Zerfallsende
- Zerfallsenergie
- Zerfallserscheinung
- Zerfallsprodukt
- Zerfallsreihe
Further reading
- “Zerfall” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Zerfall” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “Zerfall” in Duden online
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