Look up: decimation

1. decimation
   [n] - destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)
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2. Decimation
   .. to lose one tenth of one's military forces in battle or as punishment... Decimation is a terminology used in signal processing for the discarding of data in order to compact the data or to match the sampling rate to another data set. See also: Downsampling.
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3. decimation
   Form of capital punishment inflicted in the Roman army on units which had been guilty of insubordination, desertion during a battle, or mutiny. The guilty units were lined up and counted: every...
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4. Decimation
   Dec`i·ma'tion noun [ Latin decimatio : confer French décimation .] 1. A tithing. [ Obsolete] State Trials (1630). 2. A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. Shak. 3. The dest...
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5. decimation
   noun destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)
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6. Decimation
   • (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. • (n.) The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war. • (n.) A tithing.
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7. Decimation
   Decimation is the aelection of the tenth man of a corps of soldiers by lot for punishment, practised by the Romans. Sometimes every tenth man was executed; sometimes only one man of each company, the tenth in order. The term was later applied to the exaction or payment of a tithe or tax of one-tenth...
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8. Decimation
   (Roman army) `Decimation` (; 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." Procedure: A unit selected...
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9. Decimation
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10. Decimation
    (signal processing) :This article is related to signal processing. For other meanings of the word `Decimation`, please see Decimation (disambiguation). In digital signal processing, `decimation` is a technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal. The element wh...
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