Decomposition (disambiguation)

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Decomposition is the biological process through which organic material is reduced.

Decomposition, decompose, spoilage or spoiling 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

• Manifold decomposition, decomposition of manifolds
  • JSJ decomposition, or toral decomposition, a decomposition of 3-manifolds
• Matrix decomposition, decomposition of matrices
• Vector decomposition, decomposition of vectors
• Helmholtz decomposition, decomposition of a vector field
• Lebesgue's decomposition theorem, decomposition of a measure
• Hahn decomposition of a measure space
• Hahn–Jordan decomposition of a signed measure
• Doob decomposition of an integrable, discrete-time stochastic process
• Doob–Meyer decomposition of a continuous-time sub- or supermartingale
• Lie group decomposition, used to analyse the structure of Lie groups and associated objects
• Indecomposable continuum
• Indecomposability

Other uses

• Decomposition (computer science), or factoring; the process of breaking a complex problem down into easily understood and achievable parts
• Food spoilage, the process in which food deteriorates to the point in which it is not edible to humans or its quality of edibility becomes reduced

See also

• Decomposition method (disambiguation)
• Decay (disambiguation)