decimation

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noun

Plural noun:

decimations

1.
(Ancient Rome, countable, uncountable)(Ancient Rome, strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
Đồng nghĩa: tithing
2.
(countable, uncountable)(generally) The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
3.
(countable, uncountable)A tithe or the act of tithing.
4.
(countable, uncountable)(mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.

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Đồng nghĩa

tithing tithe

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decimate

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Borrowed from Latin decimātiō, 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 septimation and vicesimation.