Decomposition (disambiguation)
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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
- 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
Other uses
- 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 debilitative psychological warfare technique utilised by the Stasi intelligence agency in East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s in order to repress political opponents.