Usually means: Breakdown of substances into simpler forms.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. decomposition: Merriam-Webster
  2. decomposition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decomposition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decomposition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decomposition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Decomposition, decomposition: Wordnik
  7. decomposition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. decomposition: Wiktionary
  9. decomposition: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. decomposition: Dictionary.com
  11. Decomposition (computer science), Decomposition (disambiguation), Decomposition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Decomposition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. decomposition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. decomposition: Rhymezone
  15. Decomposition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. decomposition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. decomposition: FreeDictionary.org
  18. decomposition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. decomposition: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Decomposition (disambiguation), decomposition: Legal dictionary
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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. decomposition: Encyclopedia
  2. Decomposition: Unicode Glossary

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. decomposition: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. decomposition: Medical dictionary

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Decomposition: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Decomposition: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
  4. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  5. decomposition: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)
  7. decomposition: Natural History Terms
  8. Biodiversity (No longer online)
  9. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Decomposition: Building pathology glossary
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  4. DECOMPOSITION: Glossary of Composting Terms
  5. Explosives (No longer online)
  6. "https://digitalfire.com/4sight/glossary/d.html">Decomposition: Ceramic Terminology Glossary

(Note: See decompose as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (decomposition)

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

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