decimate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To kill one-tenth of (a group), (historical, specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.

   “God sometimes decimates or tithes delinquent persons, and they died for a common crime, according as God hath cast their lot in the decrees of predestination.”

2. fiil To destroy or remove one-tenth of (something).

   “...there will be eight hundred and ten laborers producing as nine hundred, while, to accomplish their purpose, they would have to produce as one thousand... Here, then, we have a society which is continually decimating itself...”

3. fiil To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.

   “[England] had decimated itself for a question which involved no principle, and led to no result.”

4. fiil To exact a tithe or other 10% tax.

   “You forge theſe things prettily; but I have heard you are as poor as a decimated Cavalier [referring to Cromwell's ten per cent. income-tax on Cavaliers], and had not one foot of land in all the vvorld.”

5. fiil To tithe: to pay a 10% tax.
6. fiil To divide into tenths; to decimalize.

   “For example, in multiplying 3 by 0.2, the 3 units have to be decimated—that is, divided into 10 equal parts, obtaining 3 “deci-units” for each part, and then 2 such parts taken, giving as the answer 6 deci-units, or 0.6.”

7. fiil To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of (something).

   “In this dramatic picture, the nation is literally decimated, and even the tenth which remains is subjected to a further destruction.”

8. fiil To replace (a high-resolution model) with another of lower but acceptable quality. (Usually algorithmically)

   “A decimate tool allows us to obtain a more coarse-grained view of the data over the full n-dimensional space.”

9. isim A tithe or other 10% tax or payment.
10. isim A tenth of something.
11. isim A set of ten items.