Decrement

['dekrɪm(ə)nt] or ['dɛkrɪmənt]

解釋/意思:

(n.) The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.

(n.) The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment.

(n.) A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.

(n.) The quantity by which a variable is diminished.

杰克校對

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Decrease, diminution, lessening, waste, loss.

錄入:普勒斯顿

同義詞及反義詞：

[See AUGMENTATION]

凯瑟琳整理

解釋/意思:

n. the act or state of decreasing: the quantity lost by decrease.

編輯:梅齐