Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which disintegrates; specifically, a machine for pulverizing, crushing, or breaking up various kinds of materials.
- noun See
sand-mixer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mech.) A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
disintegrates .
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Examples
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Armed with this knowledge and with the "disintegrator," a device invented by Edison which is capable of reducing to atoms any substance at which it is aimed, the nations of the world pool their resources and launch an invasion of Mars across interplanetary space.
Edison's Conquest of Mars Garrett Putnam Serviss
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Gort is an impressive sight: smooth and silvered, eight feet tall, and with a disintegrator ray where his eyes should be.
The Day the Earth Stood Still: No 20 Phelim O 2010
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Quickly adapting these devices into disintegrator weapons, they conquer the surface world, sparing only those who resemble them.
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Tall, strong, silent, able to destroy the earth and resurrect the dead (sort of) and shoot disintegrator rays from his cyclopean eye, I would say the classical Gort space robot. on a scale of one to Awesome, is an eleven.
MIND MELD: What Are The Coolest Robots in Science Fiction? 2010
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We do however get the first examples of Aliens building the Pyramids and disintegrator guns.
The History of Science Fiction - The 19th Century | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2008
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Even if we feel tempted to call him the disintegrator of the musical atom, this name does not do justice to the wonderful emotional world he has discovered.
Did you know? Mexico's Nobel Prize nominee and music revolutionary 2008
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He stuck one end imperceptibly into the desktop disintegrator then offered it to his guest, who waved a polite no thanks.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Six years ago she'd been in competition for a Nobel prize, for research into the charge suppression effect in the Slaver disintegrator.
Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010
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Even if we feel tempted to call him the disintegrator of the musical atom, this name does not do justice to the wonderful emotional world he has discovered.
Did you know? Mexico's Nobel Prize nominee and music revolutionary 2008
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Multi-dimensional "Wrongness of Space" anomaly attacks our system, alien menaces and mad scientists pop out of every wrinkle of time and space, flying around (some will say chaotically) in droves, driving the serial to its bang-up finish - incomparable Edmond Hamilton destroying the planets Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus with an atomic disintegrator ray in his "Armageddon in Space".
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