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decreasing |
decreasing monotonic |
decree |
decree nisi |
decreed |
decrement
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| decrepitate
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decrement
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun decrement has 2 senses
- decrement(n = noun.attribute) decrease - the amount by which something decreases; Array is a kind of amount
- decrement(n = noun.process) decrease - a process of becoming smaller or shorter; Array is a kind of physical process, process
has particulars: dip, drop, fall, free fall, shrinkage
has particulars: decay, decline, decline, diminution, desensitisation, desensitization, narrowing, slippage, wastage
Antonym: increment
OXFORD DICTIONARY
decrement, n.
1 Physics the ratio of the amplitudes in successive cycles of a damped oscillation.
2 the amount lost by diminution or waste.
3 the act of decreasing.
1 Physics the ratio of the amplitudes in successive cycles of a damped oscillation.
2 the amount lost by diminution or waste.
3 the act of decreasing.
Etymology
L decrementum (as DECREASE)
THESAURUS
decrement
abatement, ablation, abridgment, alleviation, attenuation, attrition, consumption, contraction, corrosion, curtailment, cut, cutting, dampening, damping, decrease, decrescence, deduction, deflation, deliquescence, depletion, depreciation, depression, derogation, detraction, diminishment, diminution, dip, disparagement, dissipation, dissolution, drain, dying, dying off, erosion, evaporation, exhaustion, expenditure, extenuation, extraction, fade-out, impairment, impoverishment, languishment, leakage, lessening, letup, loss, lowering, miniaturization, minus, mitigation, reduction, relaxation, remission, retraction, retrenchment, sagging, scaling down, shortening, shrinkage, simplicity, subtraction, truncation, using, using up, wastage, waste, weakening, wear and tear, wearing, wearing awayROGET THESAURUS
decrement
Decrease
N nonincrease, decrease, decrease, diminution, lessening, subtraction, reduction, abatement, declension, shrinking (contraction, ), coarctation, abridgment, extenuation, subsidence, wane, ebb, decline, ebbing, descent, decrement, reflux, depreciation, deterioration, anticlimax, mitigation, unincreased, decreased, decreasing, on the wane, a gilded halo hovering round decay, fine by degrees and beautifully less.Decrement
N decrement, discount, defect, loss, deduction, afterglow, eduction, waste.Contraction
N contraction, reduction, diminution, decrease of size, defalcation, decrement, lessening, shrinking, compaction, tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy, systole, neck, hourglass, condensation, compression, compactness, compendium, squeezing, strangulation, corrugation, astringency, astringents, sclerotics, contractility, compressibility, coarctation, inferiority in size, contracting, astringent, shrunk, contracted, strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted, waning, neap, compact, unexpanded &c (expand), contractile, compressible, smaller &c (small).
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