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decremental
[ dek-ruh-men-tl ]
adjective
- showing a gradual or serial decrease or reduction:
The retina undergoes several decremental functional and structural changes with age.
- being or relating to the amount lost by a gradual or serial reduction:
The pressure on the brake is decreased by a decremental amount each time it is applied by the ABS.
- Mathematics. being or relating to a negative increment:
In an analogous way to the addition operation, we can also use an existing variable for the decremental value of a subtraction operation.
- Physics. relating to the ratio of amplitudes of a damped harmonic motion in the course of two successive oscillations:
The velocity of the decremental voltage wave in response to a stimulus is one of the quantities we can derive.
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Other Words From
- dec·re·men·tal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of decremental1
First recorded in 1730–40; decrement ( def ) + -al 1
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