decimation

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The killing or destruction of a large portion of a population
A digital signal processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal
The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of the original sequence
A tithing
A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment
{n} the act of taking the tenth
{i} giving of a tenth, giving of a tithe (Archaic); total destruction; killing
destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)
The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war
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To severely reduce; to destroy almost completely
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To reduce anything by one in ten, or ten percent
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(Roman history) To kill one man chosen by lot out of every ten in a legion or other military group
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To exact a tithe, or tax of 10 percent
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to destroy a measurable or large proportion of
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{f} destroy a large part of
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{v} to take the tenth, to tithe
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To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease
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To take the tenth part of; to tithe
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To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny
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To reduce to one-tenth
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To replace a high-resolution model with one of lower resolution but acceptably similar appearance
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kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
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To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them. The pollution could decimate the river's thriving population of kingfishers
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To kill one man chosen by lot out of every ten in a legion or other military group
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To decimate a system or organization means to reduce its size and effectiveness greatly. a recession which decimated the nation's manufacturing industry. to destroy a large part of something (decimatus, past participle of decimare , from decem )
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kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
decimation

    Hyphenation

    de·ci·ma·tion

    Turkish pronunciation

    desımeyşın

    Pronunciation

    /ˈdesəˌmāsʜən/ /ˈdɛsəˌmeɪʃən/

    Etymology

    () From Latin decimatio, a punishment where every 10th man in a unit would be stoned to death by the men who were spared. Used by the Romans to keep order in their military.
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