decomposition

See also: décomposition

English

de- +‎ composition

decomposition (countable and uncountable, plural decompositions)

A biological process through which organic material is reduced to e.g. compost.
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, […]
The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom, or a compound) into constituent parts.

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)
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
Greek: αποσύνθεση (el) f (aposýnthesi)

Haitian Creole: dekonpozisyon
Italian: decomposizione (it) f
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)
Spanish: descomposición (es) f
Swedish: nedbrytning (sv) c
Tagalog: agnas (tl)

act of taking something apart

Greek: διάλυση (el) f (diálysi)
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