decimation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌdɛsɪˈmeɪʃən/    美 /ˌdɛsɪˈmeɪʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot. Ancient-Rome,countable,uncountable
    — By decimation and a tythed death; / If thy Reuenges hunger for that Food, / Which Nature loathes, take thou the deſtin'd tenth, […]
  2. The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  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. The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.; A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling countable,uncountable

词形变化

decimations plural

词汇关系

相关词
decimate
并列词
quintation (1 5) septimation (1 7) vicesimation (1 20) tricesimation (1 30) centesimation (1 100)

词源

Borrowed from Latin decimātiō, a punishment where every 10th man in a unit would be stoned to death by the men who were spared. Used by the Romans to keep order in their military. Compare septimation and vicesimation.
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