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decimation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | destruction, devastation |
| Derivation | decimate |
Examples of decimation
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Nationwide, cats are largely responsible for the decimation of bird populations.
From the ocregister.com
Vigorous condemnations lead to the decimation of beguinages in the Rhine Valley.
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His decimation of Donald Trump, who sat in the audience, was particularly brutal.
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In fact, the short-sighted might opt for decimation rather than redistribution.
From the forbes.com
Of course, it would be a much smaller population, but decimation is not extinction.
From the independent.co.uk
The decimation tax was unpopular with a far wider layer than just royalists.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
The decimation of these organizations will not thwart the demand for their services.
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By and far, though, agrochemicals contribute most to pollinator decimation.
From the infowars.com
As such we have witnessed the gradual decimation of the manufacturing base.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)
- (decimate) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
- (decimate) eliminate: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
- Decimation is the late 2005 Marvel Comics storyline spinning out of the House of M limited series, that focuses on the ramifications of the Scarlet Witch's stripping nearly all of the mutant population of their powers, reducing a society of millions to one of scant hundreds.
- Decimation (decimatio; decem = "ten") was a form of military discipline used by officers in the Roman Army to punish mutinous or cowardly soldiers. The word decimation is derived from Latin meaning "removal of a tenth."
- In digital signal processing, decimation is a technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal. The element which implements this technique is referred to as a decimator.
- The killing or destruction of a large portion of a population; A tithing; A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment; The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of the original sequence; A digital signal processing technique for reducing the number of ...
- (decimate) To kill one man chosen by lot out of every ten in a legion or other military group; To reduce anything by one in ten, or ten percent; To exact a tithe, or tax of 10 percent; To reduce to one-tenth; To severely reduce; to destroy almost completely; To replace a high-resolution model ...
- (Decimate) To reduce by a tenth. The term properly refers to the Roman practice of disciplining a military unit by selecting a tenth of its force by lot and killing them. It is incorrectly used by the media to refer to a large number of casualties in a group.
