Destruction vs Decimation - What's the difference?
destruction | decimation |
The act of destroying.
The results of a destructive event.
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 destruction and decimation
is that destruction is the act of destroying while decimation is the killing or destruction of a large portion of a population.destruction
English
Noun
(en noun)- The destruction of the condemned building will take place at noon.
- Amid the seemingly endless destruction , a single flower bloomed.
