1. To separate into its component parts or particles; to reduce to fragments, to break up, to destroy the cohesion or integrity of (as with a mechanical or an atmospheric action): "The Twin Towers in New York City were disintegrated by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001."
2. To separate or break off as particles or fragments from the whole mass or body: "The workers were disintegrating the big stones that were blocking the construction of the new highway and then they were using the disintegrated material for the

A reference to that which has been reduced to fragments, broken up; or broken off as fragments.