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

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo