Decomposition
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A biological process through which organic material is reduced to e.g. compost The act of taking something apart, e.g. for analysis In mathematics, the splitting (of e.g. a matrix) into constituent parts
Disintegration
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A process by which anything disintegrates.The condition of anything which has disintegrated.A wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
Example sentence: One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.