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
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