English-Thai Dictionary
decrement
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
DECREMENT
n. 1. Decrease; waste; the state of becoming less gradually.
Rocks and mountains suffer a continual decrement.
2. The quantity lost by gradual diminution, or waste.
3. In heraldry, the wane of the moon.
4. In crystalography, a successive diminution of the lamens of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which the secondary forms are supposed to be produced.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
DECREMENT
Dec "re *ment, n. Etym: [L. decrementum, fr. decrescere. See Decrease. ]
1. The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss. Twit me with the decrements of my pendants. Ford. Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. Woodward.
2. The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to Ant: increment.
3. (Crystallog.)
Defn: A name given by Haüy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.
4. (Math. )
Defn: The quantity by which a variable is diminished. Equal decrement of life. (a ) The decrease of life in a group of persons in which the assumed law of mortality is such that of a given large number of persons, all being now of the same age, an equal number shall die each consecutive year. (b ) The decrease of life in a group of persons in which the assumed law of mortality is such that the ratio of those dying in a year to those living through the year is constant, being independent of the age of the persons.
New American Oxford Dictionary
decrement
dec re ment |ˈdekrəmənt ˈdɛkrəmənt | ▶noun a reduction or diminution: relaxation produces a decrement in sympathetic nervous activity. • an amount by which something is reduced or diminished: the dose was reduced by 10 mg weekly decrements. • Physics the ratio of the amplitudes in successive cycles of a damped oscillation. ▶verb [ with obj. ] chiefly Computing cause a discrete reduction in (a numerical quantity ): the instruction decrements the accumulator by one. ORIGIN early 17th cent. (as a noun ): from Latin decrementum ‘diminution, ’ from the stem of decrescere ‘to decrease. ’
Oxford Dictionary
decrement
decrement |ˈdɛkrɪm (ə )nt | ▶noun technical a reduction or diminution. • an amount by which something is reduced or diminished: the dose was reduced by 10 mg weekly decrements. • Physics the ratio of the amplitudes in successive cycles of a damped oscillation. ▶verb [ with obj. ] chiefly Computing cause a discrete reduction in (a numerical quantity ). ORIGIN early 17th cent. (as a noun ): from Latin decrementum ‘diminution ’, from the stem of decrescere ‘to decrease ’.
Spanish Dictionary
decremento
decremento nombre masculino formal Disminución :se produjo un ocasional decremento de las utilidades de la fábrica .
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