different between decomposition vs hyaline

English

Etymology

de- +? composition

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /di??k?mp??z???n/

Noun

decomposition (countable and uncountable, plural decompositions)

1. A biological process through which organic material is reduced to e.g. compost.
2. The act of taking something apart, e.g. for analysis.
   • 2005, Gerard Chollet, Anna Esposito, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Nonlinear Speech Modeling and Applications

     Speech decomposition into a periodic and a non-periodic part is a subject of considerable importance with applications in speech synthesis, […]

3. The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom, or a compound) into constituent parts.

Related terms

• decompose

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• hyalin

Etymology

Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ??????? (huálinos), from ????? (húalos, “glass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha??l?n/, /?ha??li?n/

Adjective

hyaline (comparative more hyaline, superlative most hyaline)

1. Glassy, transparent; amorphous.

Derived terms

• hyaline degeneration

Translations

Noun

hyaline (countable and uncountable, plural hyalines)

1. (poetic) Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
   • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Rhapsody of Life's Progress

     Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.

2. (zoology, anatomy) A clear translucent substance in tissues.
3. (biochemistry) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.
   • 1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […]

     where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked

Latin

Adjective

hyaline

1. vocative masculine singular of hyalinus