decimation — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.

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   Synonyme

   tithing

   Beispiele

   By decimation and a tythed death; / If thy Reuenges hunger for that Food, / Which Nature loathes, take thou the deſtin'd tenth, […]

2. The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.

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   And the vvhole Army had cauſe to enquire into their own Rebellions, vvhen they ſavv the Lord of Hoſts, vvith a dreadful Decimation, taking off ſo many of our Brethren by the vvorſt of Executioners.

   General Secretary Mick Lynch said: "It is crystal clear that the planned cutbacks on ScotRail and SWR are just the tip of the iceberg, as cynical employers use the cloak of COVID-19 to smuggle through the decimation of jobs and services on Britain's railways.

3. A tithe or the act of tithing.

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4. The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.

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5. The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence. A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling

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Substantiv

1. destroying or killing a large part of the population

   Oberbegriffe

   destructiondevastation