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decrement

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Noun
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dec=re=ment

OXFORD DICTIONARY

decrement, n.
1 Physics the ratio of the amplitudes in successive cycles of a damped oscillation.
2 the amount lost by diminution or waste.
3 the act of decreasing.

Etymology
L decrementum (as DECREASE)

THESAURUS

decrement

abatement, ablation, abridgment, alleviation, attenuation, attrition, consumption, contraction, corrosion, curtailment, cut, cutting, dampening, damping, decrease, decrescence, deduction, deflation, deliquescence, depletion, depreciation, depression, derogation, detraction, diminishment, diminution, dip, disparagement, dissipation, dissolution, drain, dying, dying off, erosion, evaporation, exhaustion, expenditure, extenuation, extraction, fade-out, impairment, impoverishment, languishment, leakage, lessening, letup, loss, lowering, miniaturization, minus, mitigation, reduction, relaxation, remission, retraction, retrenchment, sagging, scaling down, shortening, shrinkage, simplicity, subtraction, truncation, using, using up, wastage, waste, weakening, wear and tear, wearing, wearing away

ROGET THESAURUS

decrement

Decrease

N nonincrease, decrease, decrease, diminution, lessening, subtraction, reduction, abatement, declension, shrinking (contraction, ), coarctation, abridgment, extenuation, subsidence, wane, ebb, decline, ebbing, descent, decrement, reflux, depreciation, deterioration, anticlimax, mitigation, unincreased, decreased, decreasing, on the wane, a gilded halo hovering round decay, fine by degrees and beautifully less.

Decrement

N decrement, discount, defect, loss, deduction, afterglow, eduction, waste.

Contraction

N contraction, reduction, diminution, decrease of size, defalcation, decrement, lessening, shrinking, compaction, tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy, systole, neck, hourglass, condensation, compression, compactness, compendium, squeezing, strangulation, corrugation, astringency, astringents, sclerotics, contractility, compressibility, coarctation, inferiority in size, contracting, astringent, shrunk, contracted, strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted, waning, neap, compact, unexpanded &c (expand), contractile, compressible, smaller &c (small).


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