decomposition

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Products of decomposition are generally looked upon as undesirable for food, and this is equally true of these products that arise in cream if the decomposition is allowed to continue long enough.

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  1. noun The act or result of decomposing; disintegration.
  2. noun Chemistry Separation into constituents by chemical reaction.
  3. noun Biology Breakdown or decay of organic materials.

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  • Using the decomposition, a set of principles to prohibit changes which will interfere with unmodified components is provided. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The testing does not measure heat decomposition, thermal toxicity, toxic gases or the incapacitation factor. —  CNS Magazine - Headline News
  • There also was the odor of human decomposition, the same odor detected in her parents 'backyard. —  Latest Articles
  • The singular value decomposition (SVD) was performed, yielding a standard decomposition are orthogonal matrices and D is diagonal. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • These indications include mortal livor mortis (blood pooling in the part of the body at lowest elevation), decomposition, incineration, or other bodily damage that is clearly inconsistent with life. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
 

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  1. from French décomposition = Spanish descomposicion = Portuguese decomposição = Italian decomposizione, from New Latin *decompositio(n-), from decomponere, decompose: see decompound, decompose.
 

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/dikɑmpəˈzɪʃən/
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