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Decomposition

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A biological process through which organic material is reduced to e.g. compost. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the analysis of a vector field wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of taking something apart, e.g. for analysis. countable, uncountable

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

  4. 4
    the organic phenomenon of rotting wordnet
  5. 5
    The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom, or a compound) into constituent parts. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action wordnet
  2. 7
    (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance wordnet
  3. 8
    in a decomposed state wordnet

Etymology

From de- + composition.

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