Decimation (punishment) - Wikipedia In modern English, the word is used most commonly to mean total destruction or annihilation Decimation was the most extreme punishment of the Roman army, where a tenth of a unit that had proven its cravenness was killed
DECIMATION Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com Decimation implies that nearly all of a population has been destroyed or killed You might be angry about the decimation of the rainforest in a region of South America or the decimation of the coral in a reef where you'd hoped to snorkel some day
DECIMATION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary The half-rate data is produced by a decimation process which simply discards alternate samples of a low-pass filtered (to remove aliasing distortion) version of the original signal
Decimation - definition of decimation by The Free Dictionary To inflict great destruction or damage on: The storm decimated the region b To reduce markedly in amount: a profligate heir who decimated his trust fund 3 To select by lot and kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers)