indecomposable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- indecomposableness noun
Etymology
Origin of indecomposable
First recorded in 1805–15; in- 3 + decomposable ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Unlike your town’s landfill, it doesn’t contain indecomposable plastic items or toxic chemicals.
From Washington Post
Our previous reasoning would lead us nevertheless to guess that this sense is not, in its nature, a simple and indecomposable faculty.
From Project Gutenberg
Indecomposable, in-de-kom-pōz′a-bl, adj. that cannot be decomposed.
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Our will may be a primary initiating cause or force, as unexplainable, as unreducible, as indecomposable, as impossible if you choose, but as real to our belief as the œternitas a parte ante.
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El�ements, the simplest constituent principles or parts of anything; in a special sense, the ultimate indecomposable constituents of any kind of matter.
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