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indecomposable, a.|ɪndiːkəmˈpəʊzəb(ə)l|
[in-3: cf. F. indécomposable (Voltaire, 1738).]
Incapable of being decomposed or resolved into constituent elements.
1807R. Kirwan Logick I. iii. v. 212 It has been laid down..that water was an element, and that elements were indecomposable. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 291 A compound in⁓soluble in water, indecomposable by acid or alkaline solutions. 1860Farrar Orig. Lang. v. 97 Words which are primitive, indecomposible, and irreducible. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1869) III. v. 359 Other faculties, which being original and indecomposable, resist all inductive treatment. 1868Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 435 Among the many nebulæ, indecomposable into stars. 1968P. A. P. Moran Introd. Probability Theory ix. 406 A distribution containing all its probability concentrated at two points is indecomposable. 1971Powell & Higman Finite Simple Groups iii. 140 A root system Δ with base Π is indecomposable if it is impossible to split up Π into two non-empty subsets which are orthogonal to each other.
Hence ˌindecomposaˈbility.
1950Mathematical Rev. May 377/1 (title) Proof of the indecomposability of a certain graph. 1968P. A. P. Moran Introd. Probability Theory ix. 409 We now consider an example of the indecomposability of absolutely continuous distributions. |
