decomposition

See also: décomposition

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decomposition

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Etymology

From de- +‎ composition.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

decomposition (countable and uncountable, plural decompositions)

1. A biological process through which organic material is reduced to e.g. compost.
2. The act of taking something apart, e.g. for analysis.
   • 2005, Gerard Chollet, Anna Esposito, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Nonlinear Speech Modeling and Applications:

     Speech decomposition into a periodic and a non-periodic part is a subject of considerable importance with applications in speech synthesis, […]

3. The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom, or a compound) into constituent parts.

Derived terms

• autodecomposition
• Białynicki-Birula decomposition
• branch-decomposition
• chemical decomposition
• Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition
• decompositional
• decomposition potential
• double decomposition
• eigen decomposition
• eigendecomposition
• Heegaard decomposition
• Hodge decomposition
• matrix decomposition
• nano-decomposition
• nanodecomposition
• nondecomposition
• open book decomposition
• photodecomposition
• predecomposition
• prime decomposition
• QR decomposition
• Schur decomposition
• singular value decomposition
• square root decomposition
• tree decomposition

Related terms

• decompose

Translations

biological process

Bulgarian: гниене (bg) n (gniene), разлагане (bg) n (razlagane) Catalan: descomposició (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 分解作用 (fan1 gaai2 zok3 jung6) Mandarin: 分解作用 (zh) (fēnjiě zuòyòng) Danish: nedbrydning c, forrådnelse c, opløsning c Finnish: hajoaminen (fi) French: décomposition (fr) f Galician: descomposición (gl) f Georgian: ხრწნა (xrc̣na), გახრწნა (gaxrc̣na), ლპობა (lṗoba) German: Zersetzung (de) f, Abbau (de) m, Verwesung (de) f Greek: αποσύνθεση (el) f (aposýnthesi) Haitian Creole: dekonpozisyon Hindi: अपघटन m (apaghṭan) Indonesian: dekomposisi (id), penguraian (id) Italian: decomposizione (it) f Japanese: 分解 (ja) (bunkai) Malay: pereputan (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: nedbrytning m or f, nedbryting m or f Nynorsk: nedbryting f Polish: rozpad (pl) m, rozkład (pl) m, gnicie (pl) n Portuguese: decomposição (pt) f Romanian: descompunere (ro) f Russian: разложе́ние (ru) n (razložénije), гние́ние (ru) n (gnijénije), распа́д (ru) m (raspád) Serbo-Croatian: raspad (sh) m Spanish: descomposición (es) f Swedish: nedbrytning (sv) c Tagalog: agnas (tl) Turkish: ayrışma (tr), çürüme (tr)

act of taking something apart

Bulgarian: разглобяване (bg) n (razglobjavane) Danish: opløsning c Finnish: hajottaminen (fi), erittely (fi) French: démontage (fr) m German: Zerlegung (de) f Greek: διάλυση (el) f (diálysi) Indonesian: dekomposisi (id) Japanese: 分解 (ja) (bunkai) Malay: leraian Maori: wāwāhinga Portuguese: decomposição (pt) f Romanian: demontare (ro) f, descompunere (ro) f Russian: разложе́ние (ru) n (razložénije), расчлене́ние (ru) n (rasčlenénije), разбие́ние (ru) n (razbijénije)

splitting into constituent parts

Bulgarian: разлагане (bg) n (razlagane) Danish: opløsning c Dutch: decompositie (nl) f Finnish: hajotelma French: décomposition (fr) f German: Zerlegung (de) f Greek: διάσπαση (el) f (diáspasi) Haitian Creole: dekonpozisyon Japanese: 分解 (ja) (bunkai) Portuguese: decomposição (pt) f Romanian: descompunere (ro) f, dezasamblare (ro) f Russian: разложе́ние (ru) n (razložénije), декомпози́ция (ru) f (dekompozícija) Spanish: descomposición (es) f