Decimation

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  • n. The killing or destruction of a large portion of a population.
  • n. A tithing.
  • n. A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment.
  • n. The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of the original sequence.
  • n. A digital signal processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A tithing.
  • n. A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment.
  • n. The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A tithing; specifically, an income-tax of 10 per cent. levied on the Cavaliers by Cromwell.
  • n. A selection of every tenth by lot, as for punishment, etc.
  • n. The destruction of a great but indefinite number or proportion of people, as of an army or of the inhabitants of a country; a heavy loss of life.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    devastation    destruction   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tithing   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    triumvir    band-pass    cousinship    counteroffer    signal-to-noise   
     
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