decimation

Etymology
Borrowed from, a punishment where every 10th man in a unit would be stoned to death by the men who were spared. Used by the Romans to keep order in their military. Compare and.

Noun

 * 1)  The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
 * 2)  The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
 * 3) A tithe or the act of tithing.
 * 4)  The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.
 * 5)  A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling
 * 1) A tithe or the act of tithing.
 * 2)  The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.
 * 3)  A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling
 * 1)  A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling

Translations

 * Finnish: desimaatio
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: десеткување
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: joukkotuho,


 * Finnish: desimointi


 * Finnish: desimointi