decimation

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.

   “By decimation and a tythed death; / If thy Reuenges hunger for that Food, / Which Nature loathes, take thou the deſtin'd tenth, […]”

2. isim The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.

   “And the vvhole Army had cauſe to enquire into their own Rebellions, vvhen they ſavv the Lord of Hoſts, vvith a dreadful Decimation, taking off ſo many of our Brethren by the vvorſt of Executioners.”

3. isim A tithe or the act of tithing.
4. isim The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.
5. isim A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling