English > change of integrity: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | The act of changing the unity or wholeness of something. |
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| Narrower | breakage, break, breaking | The act of breaking something |
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| burning, combustion | The act of burning something |
| combination, combining, compounding | The act of combining things to form a new whole / whole |
| damage, harm, hurt, scathe | The act of damaging something or someone |
| explosion, burst | The act of exploding / exploding or bursting |
| filling | The act of filling something |
| hardening | The act of making something harder (firmer or tighter / tighter or more compact) |
| joining, connection, connexion | The act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) |
| opening | Becoming open or being made open |
| separation | The act of dividing or disconnecting |
| transformation, translation | The act of changing in form or shape / shape / shape or appearance |
| transformation | (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA |
| Broader | change | The action of changing something |
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