Associations to the word «Decimation»
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).
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