redintegration Meaning, Definition & Usage

Re*din`te*gra"tion noun
Etymology
L. redintegratio.
Definitions
  1. Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation. Dr. H. More.
  2. (Chem.) Restoration of a mixed body or matter to its former nature and state. Achaic. Coxe.
  3. (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.

Webster 1913