Usually means: Reduction or destruction of ten percent.
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  1. decimation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. decimation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decimation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. decimation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Decimation, decimation: Wordnik
  6. decimation: Wiktionary
  7. Decimation, decimation: Dictionary.com
  8. decimation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Decimation (Roman Army), Decimation (Roman army), Decimation (comics), Decimation (signal processing), Decimation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Decimation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. decimation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. decimation: Rhymezone
  13. Decimation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. decimation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. decimation: Free Dictionary
  16. decimation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. decimation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Decimation (disambiguation), decimation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decimation: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decimation: Wordcraft Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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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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