Decimation vs Declaration - What's the difference?
decimation | declaration |
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.
A written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief.
A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
The act or process of declaring.
(cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
(legal) In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff’s cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
(computing) The specification of a variable's type