Word Meanings - DECOMPOSITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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

Additional info about word: DECOMPOSITION

1. 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. 2. The state of being reduced into original elements. 3. Repeated composition; a combination of compounds. Decomposition of forces. Same as Resolution of forces, under Resolution. -- Decomposition of light, the division of light into the prismatic colors.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DECOMPOSITION)

• Analysis
• Dissection
• separation
• anatomy
• segregation
• decomposition
• resolution
• partition
• Corruption
• Decomposition
• decay
• putrescence
• adulteration
• dev
• pravity
• rottenness
• defilement
• deterioration
• perversion
• debasement
• taint
• contamination
• putrefaction

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DECOMPOSITION)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge

Related words: (words related to DECOMPOSITION)

• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• ADULTERATION
  1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• RESOLUTIONER
  One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
• PUTRESCENCE
  The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. 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
• TAINTWORM
  A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• TAINTURE
  Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. Shak.
• DECAYER
  A causer of decay.
• TAINTLESSLY
  In a taintless manner.
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• FLOURISHINGLY
  , adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• PERVERSION
  The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. "Violations and perversions of the laws."
• LUXURIATE
  1. To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance. " Corn luxuriates in a better mold." Burton. 2. To feed or live luxuriously; as, the herds luxuriate in the pastures. 3. To indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate
• RESOLUTIONIST
  One who makes a resolution.
• FLOURISHER
  One who flourishes.
• DEFILEMENT
  The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• MICROANALYSIS
  Analysis of the structure of materials from careful observation of photomicrographs.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• QUADRIPARTITION
  A division or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.
• INCORRUPTION
  The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv.
• PREDECAY
  Premature decay.
• BIPARTITION
  The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.
• DEPRAVITY
  The stae of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle. Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism. Syn.