decomposition

See also: décomposition

English

Etymology

de- + composition

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /diːˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən/
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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.

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