Crossword clues for decimation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decimation \Dec`i*ma"tion\, n. [L. decimatio: cf. F. d['e]cimation.]
A tithing. [Obs.]
--State Trials (1630).A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment.
--Shak.The destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war.
--Milman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Late Latin decimationem (nominative decimatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin decimare "the removal or destruction of one-tenth," from decem "ten" (see ten). Earliest sense in English was of a tithe; punishment sense is from 1580s; transferred sense of "much destruction, severe loss" recorded from 1680s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The killing or destruction of a large portion of a population. 2 A tithe. 3 A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. 4 (context mathematics English) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every ''n''th element of the original sequence. 5 (context telecommunications English) A digital signal processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal.
WordNet
n. destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)
Wikipedia
Decimation (; decem = " ten") was a form of military discipline used by senior commanders in the Roman Army to punish units or large groups guilty of capital offences, such as mutiny or desertion. The word decimation is derived from Latin meaning "removal of a tenth". The procedure was a pragmatic attempt to balance the need to punish serious offences with the realities of managing a large group of offenders.
In digital signal processing, decimation is the process of reducing the sampling rate of a signal. Complementary to interpolation, which increases sampling rate, it is a specific case of sample rate conversion in a multi-rate digital signal processing system. Decimation utilises filtering to mitigate aliasing distortion, which can occur when simply downsampling a signal. A system component that performs decimation is called a decimator.
"Decimation" is a storyline event published by Marvel Comics in 2005, spinning out of the events of the House of M limited series. The event started with a one-shot issue and took place in a number of various series all carrying the "Decimation" logo on the cover. The 2005 mini-series Generation M, Sentinel Squad O*N*E, X-Men: Deadly Genesis and X-Men: The 198 were all launched specifically for the "Decimation" storyline. The various stories were collected in five Trade paper backs.
The storyline focuses on the ramifications of the Scarlet Witch stripping nearly all of the mutant population of their powers, thereby reducing a society of millions to one of scant hundreds. This event, which occurred on November 2 according to ''X-Men ''(vol. 2) #191, is known as "M-Day" in the Marvel Universe.
Reception among fans and critics was mixed, with a common complaint being the inconsistent manner in which mutants retained their powers while at times depicting "depowered" mutants as still having their physical mutations.
Decimation may refer to:
- Decimation (Roman army), a form of military discipline used by officers in the Roman army for punishment
- Decimation (signal processing), reduction of a digital signal's sampling-rate
- Decimation (comics), a 2006 Marvel Comics crossover storyline spinning off of the House of M limited series
- Decimate (game show), a 2015 BBC television game show
Usage examples of "decimation".
The collisions of all those peoples produced the tragedies of modern South Africa: the quick decimation of the Khoisan by European germs and guns.
Similar questions arise for the decimation of many other native peoples by Eurasian germs, as well as for the decimation of would-be European conquistadores in the tropics of Africa and Asia.
That, too, was a long Confederate tradition—city councils of besieged cities who surrendered before the wall was breached were subject to decimation, just as routed army units were.
Tsion taught that part of the popu lation decimation might be God's way of removing his most incorrigible enemies in anticipation of the coming epic battle.
Only since the recent decimation of another huge percentage of the population and the resulting personnel shortages had the place begun to evidence the lack.
Tsion taught that part of the population decimation might be God's way of removing his most incorrigible enemies in anticipation of the coming epic battle.
The Enfilade at Pale, the decimation of the Bridgeburners, the assault on Moon's Spawn.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Onearm's Host, in that time, was perhaps the finest army the Malazan Empire had yet to produce, even given the decimation of the Bridgeburners at the Siege of Pale.
Normal attrition due to disease, old age, accident, and mating battle kept the population fairly constant, even considering the decimations of the Hatching Hunts.
Even men vowed to poverty right often fall to the insistent temptation of silver and gold, and what with the decimations of the clergy by the Priests' Plague, not all of the men making up his insulating layers were men of the cloth, anyway.
Sane or insane were just stages of the great struggle going on everywhere all the time: across the valley, for instance, where the pines were fighting their way up the sides of the facing mountain, hurling the grenades of their cones into the thin soil, pressing their slow advantage, enduring the decimations of the lightning, aspiring (insanely, no doubt) toward the forever unreachable fastness of the summit.
Still, they come out of the earth in numbers that our decimations barely match.
The social situation in Quadling Country is such a mess, what with the decimation of the squelchy froglet population, but it may come back, in small measure, and there should be someone to oversee the ruby mines.
Communist hardliners in their time, and still hard in their hearts, they had seen their political ideologies and aspirations whittled away, Russia's status as a world leader diminished, and her armed might depleted to the point of decimation.
Then with a deadly accurate combination of five-inch naval gun and tank fire, the slow, systematic decimation of the Coastal Kommando began.