1) Destruction 2) Devastation
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1) Quinquesection
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[signal processing] In digital signal processing, decimation is the process of reducing the sampling rate of a signal. Complementary to interpolation, which increases sampling rate, it is a specific case of sample rate conversion in a multi-rate digital signal processing system. Decimation utilises filtering to mitigate aliasing distortion,...
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• (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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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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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 destruction of any large proportion, as of people by p...
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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, particularly to the the tax imposed by Oliver Cr...
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n] - destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)
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.. 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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noun destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)
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destroying or killing a large part of the population
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