degenerate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
2. sıfat Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.

   “faint-hearted and degenerate king”

3. sıfat Having lost functionality in general.
4. sıfat Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.

   “The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.”

5. sıfat Qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class.

   “A degenerate circle, having radius zero, consists of a single point.”

6. sıfat Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
7. sıfat Having the same quantum energy level.
8. isim One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral or corrupt person.

   “In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy.”

9. fiil To lose good or desirable qualities.

   “His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.”

10. fiil To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.