Definizione monolingua

decimation

decimation (plural decimations)

1. The killing or destruction of a large portion of a population.
   • 1702: Cotton Mather, 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.
2. A tithing.
3. A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment.
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens, V-v - By decimation and a tithed death, / ... take thou the destind tenth.
4. (mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of the original sequence.
5. (telecommunications) A digital signal processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal.

Definizione dizionario decimation

decimazione

Altri significati:

(mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every '''n''' th element of the original sequence.

A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment.

(telecommunications) A digital signal processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal.

A tithing.

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