decomposition

See also: décomposition

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-der.

English de-

English composition

English decomposition

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
• Māori: 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