Decomposition (disambiguation)

Biology and ecology

Decomposition is the process through which organic matter is broken down into simpler molecules.

Decomposition, decompose may also refer to:

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

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
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

Decomposition (computer science), or factoring; the process of breaking a complex problem down into easily understood and achievable parts
Semantic decomposition, used in natural language processing
Decompositions: Volume Number One, the second studio album by American screamo band Circle Takes the Square
Decomposition, translated from the German Zersetzung, was a debilative psychological warfare technique utilised by the Stasi intelligence agency in East Germany during the 1970's and 1980's in order to repress political opponents.