decomposition
A biological process through which organic material is reduced to e.g. compost.
Other meanings
The act of taking something apart, e.g. for analysis.
The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom or a compound) into constituent parts.
Synonyms
- vector decomposition
Related words
- autodecomposition
- decompositional
- eigendecomposition
- nanodecomposition
- nondecomposition
- photodecomposition
- predecomposition
- Schur decomposition
- Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition
- QR decomposition
- branch-decomposition
- chemical decomposition
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This definition is adapted from “decomposition” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.