Annihilate vs Decimation - What's the difference?
annihilate | decimation |
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
(label) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation.
(archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
*, II.17:
The killing or destruction of a large portion of a population.
* 1702:' , ''Magnalia Christi Americana'' - And the whole army had cause to enquire into their own rebellions, when they saw the Lord of Hosts, with a dreadful ' decimation , taking off so many of our brethren by the worst of executioners.
A tithing.
A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment.
* , V-v - By decimation and a tithed death, / ... take thou the destin'd tenth.
(mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every n th element of the original sequence.
(telecommunications) A digital signal processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal.
As a verb annihilate
is to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.As a noun decimation is
the killing or destruction of a large portion of a population.annihilate
English
Verb
(annihilat)- An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
- of all the opinions which Antiquity hath had of men in gross, those which I most willingly embrace, and whereon I take most hold, are such as most vilifie, condemne, and annihilate us.