diakoptics

English

Etymology

From the Greek dia (system) + koptic (tear).

Noun

diakoptics (uncountable)

1. The act of breaking a problem down into components which can be solved independently before being joined back together to obtain a solution to the whole problem.

References

• Diakoptics, Domain Decomposition and Parallel Computing by C.-H. Lai, The Computer Journal, Volume 37, Issue 10, pp. 840-846.