Associations to the word «Decimation»
Noun
- Mutant
- Extermination
- Filter
- Sampling
- Storyline
- Cherokee
- Sigma
- Smallpox
- Cohort
- Fourier
- Fir
- Dt
- Tenth
- Crossover
- Correlation
- Messiah
- Computation
- Massacre
- Genocide
- Herd
- Converter
- Tragedy
- Punishment
- Frequency
- Algorithm
- Famine
- Integer
- Degradation
- Sequence
- Compression
- Transform
- Legion
- Destruction
- Delta
- Marvel
- Sample
- Deity
- Input
- Factor
- Migration
- Reduction
- Population
- Disease
- Ridge
- Power
- Output
- Signal
- Execution
- Echo
- Conversion
- Rate
- Matrix
- Fast
- Buffalo
- European
- Butterfly
- Cattle
- Tax
- Threat
- Historian
- Wake
- Tribe
- Processing
- Expansion
- Event
- Creation
Adjective
Wiktionary
DECIMATION, noun. The killing or destruction of a large portion of a population.
DECIMATION, noun. A tithing.
DECIMATION, noun. A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment.
DECIMATION, noun. (mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of the original sequence.
DECIMATION, noun. (telecommunications) A digital signal processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal.
Dictionary definition
DECIMATION, noun. Destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot).
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.