decomposition
nounUK /diːˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən/
Etymology From de- + composition.
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.
- Speech decomposition into a periodic and a non-periodic part is a subject of considerable importance with applications in speech synthesis, […]2005, Gerard Chollet, Anna Esposito, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Nonlinear Speech Modeling and Applications:
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The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom, or a compound) into constituent parts.
- Derived terms
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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