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Definition of Decimation
1. Noun. Destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot).
Definition of Decimation
1. n. A tithing.
Definition of Decimation
1. Noun. The killing or destruction of a large portion of a population. ¹
2. Noun. A tithing. ¹
3. Noun. A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. ¹
4. Noun. (mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every ''n''th element of the original sequence. ¹
5. Noun. (telecommunications) A digital signal processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decimation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decimation
Literary usage of Decimation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Historical Allusions by Harbottle, Thomas Benfield, d. 1904 (1904)
"decimation. An arbitrary income-tax of ten per cent, levied on all Royalists by
Cromwell's Major- Generals, in 1655. Declaration of Independence (America). ..."
2. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"... even from persons whose property fell beneath the ment of limit of decimation ;
and there was an equally sweeping effort to obtain certainty as to the ..."
3. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... by the Conquests—Cunning Plan of the Military Conquests to Delude the Unions—
Story of the awful Desolation—decimation of the Human Race—Foolish Bargain ..."
4. Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents Relating to Great Britain and Ireland by David Wilkins, William Stubbs (1871)
"Grants made by Ethelwulf rehearsing his decimation of his lands for holy places.
i. AD 854. April 22. Grant to Winchester. ..."
5. Memoirs of the Verney Family by Margaret Maria Williams-Hay Verney (1894)
"The dismal words, Composition, Corn- purgation, decimation, Sequestration (as
uncouth and un-English in sound as in political import), ..."
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