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Pogrom vs Decimation - What's the difference?

pogrom | decimation |

As nouns the difference between pogrom and decimation

is that pogrom is a riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews while decimation is the killing or destruction of a large portion of a population.

pogrom

English

(wikipedia pogrom)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews.

    • 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.

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