Definitions from Wiktionary (decimation)
▸ noun: (Ancient Rome, strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
▸ noun: (generally) The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
▸ noun: A tithe or the act of tithing.
▸ noun: (mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.
▸ noun: (signal processing) A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling
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▸ noun: (Ancient Rome, strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
▸ noun: (generally) The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
▸ noun: A tithe or the act of tithing.
▸ noun: (mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.
▸ noun: (signal processing) A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling
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decemuir,
centesimation,
decimvir,
decim,
disme,
duodecimvir,
décime,
Decima,
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