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Definition of Decremental
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decremental
Literary usage of Decremental
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Construction of Mortality Tables from the Records of Insured Lives by Ray D. Murphy, Percy C. H. Papps (1922)
"TABLES WITH MORE THAN ONE decremental FACTOR. A mortality table, as heretofore
considered, is a table showing the number living at each age, either in the ..."
2. Journal of the Institute of Actuaries and Assurance Magazine by Institute of Actuaries (Great Britain) (1875)
"On an application of the Theory of the Composition of decremental Forces. By WM
MAKEHAM, FIA Jr HE determination of the probable effect, upon the increase ..."
3. Electro-physiology by Wilhelm Biedermann (1896)
"The latter found the EMF of this current, which he described, from reasons given
above, as the " decremental action current of tetanus," to be of ..."
4. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1889)
"The coefficients of (i — e) and t in this equation I call the incremental and
decremental difference-ratios respectively, and the corresponding derivatives, ..."
5. Conference on Assessing the Effects of Legislation on the Workload of the edited by A. Fletcher Magnum (1998)
"These are by and large mirror images of decremental steps. ... This part of the
equation, then, would resemble the decremental equation, except that it adds ..."
6. Miscellaneous Works of the Late Thomas Young by Thomas Young (1855)
"But a more remarkable peculiarity of the decrements, or rather the decremental
quotients, derived from your table, is the regularity which is observable in ..."
7. Proceedings of the Essex Institute by Essex Institute (1868)
"Fourthly, (1) the number of branches in a single colony, a decremental character, (2)
the permanency of ..."
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