Lexic.us

Definition of Decreasing

1. Adjective. Becoming less or smaller.

Definition of Decreasing

1. a. Becoming less and less; diminishing.

Definition of Decreasing

1. Verb. (present participle of decrease) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Decreasing

1. decrease [v] - See also: decrease

Medical Definition of Decreasing

1. Becoming less and less; diminishing. Decreas"ingly, Decreasing series, a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decreasing

Literary usage of Decreasing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus by William Anthony Granville (1904)
"Hence (a — x)3 is a decreasing function for all values of x. That a function may be sometimes increasing and sometimes decreasing is shown by the graph ..."

2. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"Its curves In successive sections from center to ends decreasing in inclination to the path of travel, its sections near the ends being less sharply curved ..."

3. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1875)
"The arts then should be classified by the decreasing generality and the increasing intensity of their modes of expression; thus involving also increasing ..."

4. Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus: With Examples and by James Morford Taylor, William Christ (1889)
"A Decreasing function is one that decreases when its variable increases ... Thus, ax and a* are increasing, and - and a — x are decreasing functions of x. ..."

5. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... a. diminutive (obs. and rare, in this sense), decrescent (literary), reductive; spec, contractive, deliquescent, les- sening, decreasing, etc., ..."

6. Race Distinctions in American Law by Gilbert Thomas Stephenson (1910)
"RACE DISTINCTIONS NOT Decreasing Eace distinctions do not appear to be decreasing. On the contrary, distinctions heretofore existing only in custom tend to ..."

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