Decompose
verb
To break down into smaller parts.
The body starts to decompose after death.
Often appears as...
- decompose quickly
- decompose slowly
verb
To separate or break down something into its basic elements.
We decompose the problem into smaller, more manageable parts.
Often appears as...
- decompose data
- decompose problem
verb
In mathematics, to express a number or a mathematical function in terms of its constituent parts.
We can decompose the number 10 into 2x5.
Often appears as...
- decompose number
- decompose function
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Technical
verb
In computer science, to divide a complex problem or system into parts that are easier to conceive, understand, program, and maintain.
We decompose the larger system into smaller subsystems.
Often appears as...
- decompose system
- decompose problem
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Technical
verb
To break down into smaller parts.
The body starts to decompose after death.
Often appears as...
- decompose quickly
- decompose slowly
verb
To separate or break down something into its basic elements.
We decompose the problem into smaller, more manageable parts.
Often appears as...
- decompose data
- decompose problem
verb
In mathematics, to express a number or a mathematical function in terms of its constituent parts.
We can decompose the number 10 into 2x5.
Often appears as...
- decompose number
- decompose function
Usage tips
Technical
verb
In computer science, to divide a complex problem or system into parts that are easier to conceive, understand, program, and maintain.
We decompose the larger system into smaller subsystems.
Often appears as...
- decompose system
- decompose problem
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Natural Processes
Used to describe how organisms or natural substances change over time.
Leaves on the forest floor decompose and enrich the soil.
Pro Tip 2/2Time Factor
Emphasizes that the process happens gradually and can vary in speed.
Food waste will decompose faster if it's exposed to heat.
Pro Tip 1/2Natural Processes
Used to describe how organisms or natural substances change over time.
Leaves on the forest floor decompose and enrich the soil.
Pro Tip 2/2Time Factor
Emphasizes that the process happens gradually and can vary in speed.
Food waste will decompose faster if it's exposed to heat.
Pro Tip 1/2Natural Processes
Used to describe how organisms or natural substances change over time.
Leaves on the forest floor decompose and enrich the soil.
Pro Tip 2/2Time Factor
Emphasizes that the process happens gradually and can vary in speed.
Food waste will decompose faster if it's exposed to heat.
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Welcome to the Body Farm...
studies how bodies decompose, and why. Their research helps law enforcement officers, forensic specialists, and scientists figure out when and how a person died. I don't know if you've ever tried digging holes, especially in Texas. It's a pretty difficult thing to do with all the limestone we have around here.
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What happens to our...
a number that increases by about .8% of the world's population each year. What happens to all of those people's bodies after they die and will the planet eventually run out of burial space? When a person's heart stops beating, the body passes through several stages before it begins decomposing.
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Why is biodiversity so...
Helped along by the vines, trees provide the seeds, fruits and leaves to herbivores, such as the tapir and the agouti, which disperse their seeds throughout the forest so they can grow. Leftovers are consumed by the millions of insects that decompose and recycle nutrients to create rich soil.
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100 solutions to reverse...
which struggle to feed their population. In the developed world, instead, after food leaves the farm, most food is wasted at the end of the supply chain by markets and consumers, and wasted food ends up in the landfill where it emits methane as it decomposes.
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Why didn’t this 2,000...
all organic matter is reduced to microscopic mineral nutrients. The atomic bonds between these molecules are too strong to break down any further. So instead, these nutrients feed plant life, which grow more food that will eventually decompose.
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Top 5 Animal Adaptations...
with their bodies as decomposes they feed on Deborah's collected on the ground recycling dead waste which becomes new soil making them vital for the Savannah ecosystem the open grasslands of Africa are one of the most diverse ecosystems
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Eating Rotten Shark PIPE...
as the meat decomposes it oozes toxic ammonia the chemical found in most household cleaning products and human waste I don't want to say the world this will probably describe it best be in Viking times Shark me was buried out of
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Jae Rhim Lee: My...
It's also a step towards taking responsibility for my own burden on the planet. Growing a mushroom is also part of a larger practice of cultivating decomposing organisms called decompiculture,
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Creating a Bio-Industrial...
reincarnated logs don't decompose into the soil of the way they think they do they upcycle into the bodies they reincarnate so that the law becomes fungus and the materials in the fungus
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A burial practice that...
places where nature and mourning meet. Most importantly, they offer us, once again, a chance to just decompose in a hole in the ground. The soil, let me tell you, has missed us.
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Welcome to the Body Farm...
studies how bodies decompose, and why. Their research helps law enforcement officers, forensic specialists, and scientists figure out when and how a person died. I don't know if you've ever tried digging holes, especially in Texas. It's a pretty difficult thing to do with all the limestone we have around here.
Video examples
What happens to our...
a number that increases by about .8% of the world's population each year. What happens to all of those people's bodies after they die and will the planet eventually run out of burial space? When a person's heart stops beating, the body passes through several stages before it begins decomposing.
Video examples
Why is biodiversity so...
Helped along by the vines, trees provide the seeds, fruits and leaves to herbivores, such as the tapir and the agouti, which disperse their seeds throughout the forest so they can grow. Leftovers are consumed by the millions of insects that decompose and recycle nutrients to create rich soil.
Video examples
100 solutions to reverse...
which struggle to feed their population. In the developed world, instead, after food leaves the farm, most food is wasted at the end of the supply chain by markets and consumers, and wasted food ends up in the landfill where it emits methane as it decomposes.
Video examples
Why didn’t this 2,000...
all organic matter is reduced to microscopic mineral nutrients. The atomic bonds between these molecules are too strong to break down any further. So instead, these nutrients feed plant life, which grow more food that will eventually decompose.
Video examples
Top 5 Animal Adaptations...
with their bodies as decomposes they feed on Deborah's collected on the ground recycling dead waste which becomes new soil making them vital for the Savannah ecosystem the open grasslands of Africa are one of the most diverse ecosystems
Video examples
Eating Rotten Shark PIPE...
as the meat decomposes it oozes toxic ammonia the chemical found in most household cleaning products and human waste I don't want to say the world this will probably describe it best be in Viking times Shark me was buried out of
Video examples
Jae Rhim Lee: My...
It's also a step towards taking responsibility for my own burden on the planet. Growing a mushroom is also part of a larger practice of cultivating decomposing organisms called decompiculture,
Video examples
Creating a Bio-Industrial...
reincarnated logs don't decompose into the soil of the way they think they do they upcycle into the bodies they reincarnate so that the law becomes fungus and the materials in the fungus
Video examples
A burial practice that...
places where nature and mourning meet. Most importantly, they offer us, once again, a chance to just decompose in a hole in the ground. The soil, let me tell you, has missed us.
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Claire Saffitz
American Editor
For reasons that aren't quite clear I derive a weird and almost inappropriate pleasure from making a cake that looks like a decomposing log. Essentially, that's what a Buche de Noel is supposed to look like, complete with meringue 'mushrooms' poking out of the chocolate buttercream 'bark.
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Robert Englund
American Actor
I'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?
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Jean-Claude Juncker
Luxembourger Politician
As complicated and complex and as difficult as we are, the unity of Europe is a pre-condition for a better organized world, and if the European Union would fail or decompose, or other members left, the U.S. would have a more difficult role to play in the world.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.
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Ann Hood
American Novelist
Dead bodies do get a grayish blue/purple hue because blood pools in the capillaries and the body starts to decompose. It's not smurf blue, but it's not a pleasant shade.
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Vladimir Prelog
Scientist
A planar geometrical figure with more than three vertices can be decomposed into a set of triangles, and it can be reconstructed from a set of triangles.
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Caitlin Doughty
American Activist
All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!
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Norman Borlaug
American Scientist
As far as plants are concerned, they can't tell whether that nitrate ion comes from artificial chemicals or from decomposed organic matter.
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J. P. Donleavy
American Dramatist
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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Claire Saffitz
American Editor
For reasons that aren't quite clear I derive a weird and almost inappropriate pleasure from making a cake that looks like a decomposing log. Essentially, that's what a Buche de Noel is supposed to look like, complete with meringue 'mushrooms' poking out of the chocolate buttercream 'bark.
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Robert Englund
American Actor
I'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?
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Jean-Claude Juncker
Luxembourger Politician
As complicated and complex and as difficult as we are, the unity of Europe is a pre-condition for a better organized world, and if the European Union would fail or decompose, or other members left, the U.S. would have a more difficult role to play in the world.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.
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Ann Hood
American Novelist
Dead bodies do get a grayish blue/purple hue because blood pools in the capillaries and the body starts to decompose. It's not smurf blue, but it's not a pleasant shade.
Quote examples
Vladimir Prelog
Scientist
A planar geometrical figure with more than three vertices can be decomposed into a set of triangles, and it can be reconstructed from a set of triangles.
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Caitlin Doughty
American Activist
All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!
Quote examples
Norman Borlaug
American Scientist
As far as plants are concerned, they can't tell whether that nitrate ion comes from artificial chemicals or from decomposed organic matter.
Quote examples
J. P. Donleavy
American Dramatist
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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