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Decimation vs Apocalypse - What's the difference?

decimation | apocalypse |

As a noun decimation

is the killing or destruction of a large portion of a population.

As a proper noun apocalypse is

(countable|biblical) the written account of a revelation of hidden things given by god to a chosen prophet.

decimation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (decimation equivalents)

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    apocalypse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A revelation.
    • The early development of Perl 6 was punctuated by a series of apocalypses by Larry Wall.
  • (Christianity) The unveiling of events prophesied in the ; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.
  • A disaster; a cataclysmic event.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 699:
    • The Spanish mission in America soon became not so much crusade as apocalypse .

    Synonyms

    * armageddon * doomsday * judgement day * nuclear holocaust * Ragnarok (Ragnarök) * Final Judgment * end times * eschaton

    Derived terms

    * apocalyptic * apocalypticism * snowpocalypse