See also: décomposition
English
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Etymology
[edit]From de- + composition.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /diːˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]decomposition (countable and uncountable, plural decompositions)
- A biological process through which organic material is reduced to e.g. compost.
- 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, […]
- The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom, or a compound) into constituent parts.
Derived terms
[edit]- 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
[edit]Translations
[edit]biological process
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act of taking something apart
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splitting into constituent parts
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