Carnage vs Decimation - What's the difference?
carnage | decimation |
Death and destruction.
What remains after a massacre, e.g. the corpses or gore.
Any chaotic situation.
* 2014 , Simon Spence, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas
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 nouns the difference between carnage and decimation
is that carnage is death and destruction while decimation is the killing or destruction of a large portion of a population.carnage
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos.
