decay

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Rot; any processes or result of organic matter being gradually decomposed, especially by microbial action.

   “tooth decay/dental decay—wood-decay fungi—bacterial decay—photochemical decay”

2. isim Deterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune.

   “civic and moral decay—systemic decay—fall into decay—urban decay—arrested decay—memory decay”

3. isim Radioactive decay; decomposition of an atom or its nucleus.

   “alpha decay—gamma decay—fission decay—decay chain”

4. isim Particle decay; decomposition of a sub-atomic particle.
5. isim Continuous decrease of a quantity.

   “exponential decay—decay rate—orbital decay—decay time—decay constant—time decay”

6. isim Overthrow, destruction, ruin, death.

   “Let’s cheere our ſouldiers to incounter him, That grieuous image of ingratitude: That fiery thirſter after Soueraigntie: […] Reſolue my Lords and louing ſouldiers now, To ſaue your king and country from decay:”

7. isim Array decay.
8. fiil To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.

   “The pair loved to take pictures in the decaying hospital on forty-third street.”

9. fiil To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
10. fiil To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
11. fiil To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).

    “Damaged on lift-off, Skylab was left in orbit until its orbit decayed.”

12. fiil To rot, to go bad.

    “The cat's body decayed rapidly.”

13. fiil To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.

    “Uranium decays to radium through a long series of steps with a cumulative half-life of 4.4 billion years.”

14. fiil To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
15. fiil Loss of airspeed due to drag.
16. fiil To cause to rot or deteriorate.

    “The extreme humidity decayed the wooden sculptures in the museum's collection in a matter of years.”

17. fiil Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.