decomposition

  1. Noun.  A biological process through which organic material is reduced to e.g. compost.
  2. Noun.  The act of taking something apart, e.g. for analysis.
  3. Noun.  The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom(,) or a compound) into constituent parts.

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