DECOMPOSITION
\dˌiːkɒmpəzˈɪʃən], \dˌiːkɒmpəzˈɪʃən], \d_ˌiː_k_ɒ_m_p_ə_z_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DECOMPOSITION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the organic phenomenon of rotting
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(chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance
By Princeton University
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The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.
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The state of being reduced into original elements.
By Oddity Software
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The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.
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The state of being reduced into original elements.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The act; process, or result of decomposing; dissolution; decay.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Putrefactive decay.
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Chemical separation into component elements or simpler compounds.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. The resolution, either spontaneously or artificially, of a chemical body into its elements;—state of being separated; release from previous combination; dissolution.
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The act of compounding things already compounded.
By Thomas Sheridan
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).