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decimation | undefined |

As a noun decimation

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

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

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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    undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
    • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined