Decomposition is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECOMPOSITION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the breakdown of dead organic material by detrivores or saprophytes
• the state or process of rotting; decay
• 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.
• The state of being reduced into original elements.
• Repeated composition; a combination of compounds.
• the analysis of a vector field
• in a decomposed state
• (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance
• (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
• the organic phenomenon of rotting
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds

Words related to DECOMPOSITION

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Words that contain DECOMPOSITION

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How to use DECOMPOSITION in a sentence

• On the further side of the machinery was a chamber for the decomposition of the carbonic acid, through which the air was driven by a fan.
• Next he suggests a method by which these signs may be recorded permanently, evidently by chemical decomposition on a strip of paper passed along over two rollers.
• A decomposition into many subordinate sects was inevitable.
• This causes a great loss of nitrogen during the rapid decomposition of the manure.
• It is also reasonable to suppose that they undergo change or decomposition by distillation.
• What is wanted is a light compost, consisting almost wholly of vegetable matter in a more or less advanced state of decomposition.
• Thus there is accumulation of humus and a decomposition of the rock proceeding together, and a loam of some sort is the result.
• All, however, yield one or more bodies or bases in common, while each has its distinctive and peculiar decomposition product.
• Decomposition, however, would go on by the action of light and heat through the solution.
• The platinum receiver is then attached, and the heat increased, allowing the decomposition to proceed with a certain degree of slowness.
• It is also the seat of suffering and sin, and is subject to death and decomposition as its end.
• In three cases decomposition was so far advanced that all ridge detail had been destroyed.
• In many instances of decomposition the outer skin has been destroyed or is in such a condition as to be of no value.
• As fire cannot be separated from heat, likewise the elemental being could not be subjected to decomposition, and this does not hold true because we see decomposition everywhere.
• Hence this theory is untrue, inasmuch as we observe that after each composition there is a process of decomposition which forever ends it.
• All things that undergo composition, in time undergo decomposition, but the component elements remain.
• The use made of the mound is to contain eggs, which are deposited in layers, and are then hatched by the heat generated in part from decomposition.
• The formation of this part was a sandstone of a reddish hue, and in a state of decomposition.
• Madame Yonsmit was a decayed gentlewoman who carried on her decomposition in a modest wayside cottage in Thuringia.
• With the new apparatus, the decomposition is quite irregular at first, and does not attain regularity until it has been proceeding for upward of two hours.
• The natives however, prefer all food in a high stage of decomposition and it is some time before the very smell of it ceases to make one feel ill.

Similar words containing COMPOSI without suffix tion and without prefix de

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