disenvelopment

plural disenvelopments

1. The act of disenveloping.

   In our old age, it grows through disenvelopment.

   2005, May L. Wykle, Peter J. Whitehouse, Diane L. Morris, Successful aging through the life span: intergenerational issues in health, →ISBN

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   If, therefore, musical language seems to break up and even disperse into always more parceled forms, it is because the analysis truly becomes creative, just as variation is no longer a procedure for developing a theme it would be a matter of enriching, but a principle of disenvelopment through which the totality already virtually present in the choice and in the preparatory work of the series becomes free of itself by giving itself over to a veritably torturing questions -- a question that, through the obstinate return of the identical, as again Adorno makes clear, seeks to engender an unceasing renewal.

   1993, Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation, →ISBN, page 347

   In marked contrast, VZV subjected to freezedrying in buffered solutions without sugar consisted mainly of naked nucleocapsids, suggesting that residual moisture retained by the sugar seemed to prevent viral disenvelopment.

   2012, Edwin H. Lennette, Pekka Halonen, Frederick A. Murphy, Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases Principles and Practice, →ISBN