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Word: decimation (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment.
  • A tithing.
  • mathematics The creation of a new sequence comprising only every ''n''th element of the original sequence.
  • telecommunications A digital signal processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal.
  • The killing or destruction of a large portion of a population.

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