Meaning of Decimation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
   Ancient-Rome, countable, uncountable
2. The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
   countable, uncountable
3. A tithe or the act of tithing.
   countable, uncountable
4. The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.
   countable, uncountable
5. A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“By decimation and a tythed death; / If thy Reuenges hunger for that Food, / Which Nature loathes, take thou the deſtin'd tenth, […]”

“And the vvhole Army had cauſe to enquire into their own Rebellions, vvhen they ſavv the Lord of Hoſts, vvith a dreadful Decimation, taking off ſo many of our Brethren by the vvorſt of Executioners.”

“General Secretary Mick Lynch said: "It is crystal clear that the planned cutbacks on ScotRail and SWR are just the tip of the iceberg, as cynical employers use the cloak of COVID-19 to smuggle through the decimation of jobs and services on Britain's railways.”

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