Biology and ecology
Decomposition is the process through which organic matter is broken down into simpler molecules.
Decomposition, decompose may also refer to:
Chemistry
- Chemical decomposition or analysis, in chemistry, is the fragmentation of a chemical compound into elements or smaller compounds
- Thermal decomposition, a chemical decomposition caused by heat
Mathematics
- Doob decomposition of an integrable, discrete-time stochastic process
- Doob–Meyer decomposition of a continuous-time sub- or supermartingale
- Hahn decomposition of a measure space
- Hahn–Jordan decomposition of a signed measure
- Helmholtz decomposition, decomposition of a vector field
- Indecomposability (disambiguation)
- Indecomposable continuum
- Lebesgue's decomposition theorem, decomposition of a measure
- Lie group decomposition, used to analyse the structure of Lie groups and associated objects
- Manifold decomposition, decomposition of manifolds
- JSJ decomposition, or toral decomposition, a decomposition of 3-manifolds
- Matrix decomposition, decomposition of matrices
- Primary decomposition, decomposition of ideals into primary ideals
- Vector decomposition, decomposition of vectors
- Permutation decomposition, decomposition of a permutation into disjoint cycles
Physics
- Spinodal decomposition, phase separation mechanism
Other uses
- Decomposition (computer science), or factoring; the process of breaking a complex problem down into easily understood and achievable parts
- Functional decomposition, resolving a functional relationship into its constituent parts in such a way that the original function can be reconstructed from those parts
- Semantic decomposition, used in natural language processing
- Decompositions: Volume Number One, the second studio album by American screamo band Circle Takes the Square
- Zersetzung, or decomposition, a debilitative psychological warfare technique utilised by the Stasi intelligence agency in East Germany
See also
- Component (disambiguation)
- Composition (disambiguation)
- Decay (disambiguation)
- Decomposition method (disambiguation)
- Food spoilage
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