indecomposableadj.
/ɪndiːkəmˈpəʊzəb(ə)l/ Incapable of being decomposed or resolved into constituent elements.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > [adjective] > united into a whole > not divided, separated, or split > incapable of being divided
indivisiblec1380
indepartable1393
unpartable?c1425
undivisible1495
inseparable?1504
unpartible?c1510
undividible1569
impartible1586
undissoluble1587
individable1601
undividual1603
undissolvable1611
individuate1621
insecable1623
individuous1624
insectile1635
indispertiblea1641
indisseverablea1641
individuated1689
indivisivea1706
partless1705
unanalysable1788
imparticipable1789
indecomposable1807
indecomponible1809
indissoluble1841
disseparablea1849
1807 R. Kirwan Logick I. iii. v. 212 It has been laid down..that water was an element, and that elements were indecomposable.
1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 291 A compound in~soluble in water, indecomposable by acid or alkaline solutions.
1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. v. 97 Words which are primitive, indecomposible, and irreducible.
a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. v. 359 Other faculties, which being original and indecomposable, resist all inductive treatment.
1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 435 Among the many nebulæ, indecomposable into stars.
1968 P. A. P. Moran Introd. Probability Theory ix. 406 A distribution containing all its probability concentrated at two points is indecomposable.
1971 M. B. Powell & G. 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.
Derivatives
ˌindecomposaˈbility n.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] > wholeness or unity of being > state of not being decomposable
indecomposability1950
1950 Math. Rev. May 377/1 (title) Proof of the indecomposability of a certain graph.
1968 P. A. P. Moran Introd. Probability Theory ix. 409 We now consider an example of the indecomposability of absolutely continuous distributions.
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adj.1807