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decomposition

[dee-kom-puh-zish-uhn] / ˌdi kɒm pəˈzɪʃ ən /


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Xu pointed to Cboe’s VIX Decomposition tool as a way for traders to further break down the variables that go into calculating the VIX.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 2026

The Biomimicry Institute's project - dubbed Design for Decomposition - will choose tech partners later this year, and report back in 2024.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2023

She started thinking about composting as a kind of soil-based cremation and, in 2013, finished her Master’s thesis: “Of Dirt and Decomposition: Proposing a Place for the Urban Dead.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2021

Decomposition allows for cycling of nutrients such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus back into the environment so they are available to living things, rather than being trapped in dead organisms.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

And not just any notebook, but a Decomposition notebook.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake




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