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s | decimation |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun decimation is

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

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Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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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