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).
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.