CHANGE OF INTEGRITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does change of integrity mean? 

• CHANGE OF INTEGRITY (noun)
  The noun CHANGE OF INTEGRITY has 1 sense:

1. the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something

  Familiarity information: CHANGE OF INTEGRITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANGE OF INTEGRITY (noun)

Meaning:

The act of changing the unity or wholeness of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("change of integrity" is a kind of...):

change (the action of changing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "change of integrity"):

connection; connexion; joining (the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication))

hardening (the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact))

filling (the act of filling something)

transformation ((genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA)

transformation; translation (the act of changing in form or shape or appearance)

separation (the act of dividing or disconnecting)

opening (becoming open or being made open)

combination; combining; compounding (the act of combining things to form a new whole)

burning; combustion (the act of burning something)

burst; explosion (the act of exploding or bursting something)

break; breakage; breaking (the act of breaking something)

damage; harm; hurt; scathe (the act of damaging something or someone)