Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| italia | decimazione |
| latina | decimātiō |
| portugali | deleção |
| ranska | décimation |
| saksa | Minderung |
| suomi | joukkotuho, joukkosurma, desimaatio |
| venäjä | децимация (detsimatsija) |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (Ancient Rome, strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
- (generally) The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
- A tithe or the act of tithing.
- (mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every ''n''th element of a source sequence.
- (signal processing) A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling
Esimerkit
- 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.
- , V-v - By decimation and a tithed death, / ... take thou the destin'd tenth.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | decimations |
(Ancient Rome, strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
Decimation. Etching by William Hogarth in Beaver's Roman Military Punishments (1725)