Get to know Decomposition better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like decay or rotting.
Decomposition meaning
- A biological process through which organic material is reduced to e.g. compost.
- The act of taking something apart, e.g. for analysis.
- The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom, or a compound) into constituent parts.
Synonyms of Decomposition
Using Decomposition
- The main meaning on this page is: A biological process through which organic material is reduced to e.g. compost. | The act of taking something apart, e.g. for analysis. | The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom, or a compound) into constituent parts.
- Useful related words include: decay, rotting, rot, organic phenomenon.
- In the example corpus, decomposition often appears in combinations such as: decomposition of, the decomposition, of decomposition.
Context around Decomposition
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Decomposition
- In this selection, "decomposition" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, functional, example, chemical, main, reaction and seealso stand out and add context to how "decomposition" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as functional decomposition in one and decomposition made it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "decomposition" sits close to words such as amos, anchors and arid, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with decomposition
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Decomposition made it nearly impossible to determine a possible weapon. (10 words)
The soil in Khatiya is acidic, facilitating faster decomposition of bodies. (11 words)
Skeletonization is the final stage of the decomposition of a human body. (12 words)
When Σ is positive-definite, the Cholesky decomposition is typically used, and the extended form of this decomposition can always be used (as the covariance matrix may be only positive semi-definite) in both cases a suitable matrix A is obtained. (41 words)
Forensic pathologist Dr Marna Du Plessis told the court on Thursday it was possible the girl was shot first in the back and then afterwards in the face at close range - although decomposition made the exact range difficult to determine. (40 words)
For example, the Banach–Tarski paradox is neither provable nor disprovable from ZF alone: it is impossible to construct the required decomposition of the unit ball in ZF, but also impossible to prove there is no such decomposition. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Example: Decomposition of continuous functions Motivation for decomposition As to why the decomposition is valuable, the reason is twofold.
Decomposition main A decomposition reaction is when a more complex substance breaks down into its more simple parts.
Decomposition seeAlso The carbon and nutrients in dead organic matter are broken down by a group of processes known as decomposition.
Decomposition The chemical decomposition of an explosive may take years, days, hours, or a fraction of a second.
For example, the Banach–Tarski paradox is neither provable nor disprovable from ZF alone: it is impossible to construct the required decomposition of the unit ball in ZF, but also impossible to prove there is no such decomposition.
Philosophical considerations The philosophical antecedents and ramifications of functional decomposition are quite broad, as functional decomposition in one guise or another underlies all of modern science.
When Σ is positive-definite, the Cholesky decomposition is typically used, and the extended form of this decomposition can always be used (as the covariance matrix may be only positive semi-definite) in both cases a suitable matrix A is obtained.
Decomposition made it nearly impossible to determine a possible weapon.
It is they that permit the decomposition of fallen trees to accelerate and continue building the soil so it can support increasingly greater biodiversity.
It seems she died for days due to the nature of the decomposition,” he said.
Ms Bright's body was found to be in "substantial decomposition" with noticeable bloating and swelling with red and black discolouration.
Skeletonization is the final stage of the decomposition of a human body.
Soil can simultaneously store CO from the atmosphere and emit CO through microbial decomposition of organic matter.
The officers forced entry, to discover the skeletal remains of three dogs in an advanced state of decomposition.
The soil in Khatiya is acidic, facilitating faster decomposition of bodies.
Through aeration, the blowers supply oxygen to the tank to sustain the bacteria responsible for decomposition of pollutants.
Although a definitive cause of death could not be ascertained due to decomposition, it was presumed to have been from the head injuries.
Autolysis, also known as self digestion, is the third stage of decomposition.
But the findings of this study support a long-suggested but largely overlooked hypothesis—that it is macro-fauna decomposers that dominate plant decomposition in deserts.
Forensic pathologist Dr Marna Du Plessis told the court on Thursday it was possible the girl was shot first in the back and then afterwards in the face at close range - although decomposition made the exact range difficult to determine.
Common combinations with decomposition
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- decomposition of 51×
- the decomposition 35×
- of decomposition 31×
- decomposition is 12×
- decomposition and 11×
- and decomposition 9×
- functional decomposition 7×
- decomposition rates 6×
- decomposition in 5×
- decomposition process 5×