What does "redintegration" mean?

Redintegration: (Chem.) Restoration of a mixed body or matter to its former nature and state. [Achaic.] Coxe.

Additional senses

  1. 2.(Psychology) The law that objects which have been previously combined as part of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one another; -- adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of the association of ideas.

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