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The term decimation was first used in English to mean a tax of one-tenth (or tithe). Through a process of semantic change starting in the 17th century, the word evolved to refer to any extreme reduction in the number of a population or force, or an overall sense of destruction and ruin, not strictly in the punitive sense or to a reduction by ...
The term "decimated" is a horrifying one, and evidently is sufficiently horrifying to satisfy many otherwise well-informed writers, so WP desperately needs to deprecate, and otherwise counter, its vague use:
The purpose of the anti-aliasing filter is to ensure that the reduced periodicity does not create overlap. The condition that ensures the copies of X ( f ) do not overlap each other is: B < 0.5 T ⋅ 1 M , {\displaystyle B<{\tfrac {0.5}{T}}\cdot {\tfrac {1}{M}},} so that is the maximum cutoff frequency of an ideal anti-aliasing filter.
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Roman pool (with associated modern superstructure) at Bath, England.The pool and Roman ruins may be the subject of the poem. "The Ruin of the Empire", or simply "The Ruin", is an elegy in Old English, written by an unknown author probably in the 8th or 9th century, and published in the 10th century in the Exeter Book, a large collection of poems and riddles. [1]
Decimus (/ ˈ d ɛ s ɪ m ə s / DESS-im-əs, Classical Latin: [ˈdɛkɪmʊs]), very rarely feminine Decima, is a Latin praenomen, or personal name, usually abbreviated D. Although never especially common, Decimus was used throughout Roman history from the earliest times to the end of the Western Empire and beyond, surviving into modern times. [1]
When the unabridged translation was published, Chamberlain immediately bought a copy and annotated it. [76] The Murphy translation was also reviewed in The Times, The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, Times Literary Supplement and Evening News. Reviews were mostly positive about the translation itself, but felt that Murphy's ...
Church History of Eusebius, Book V, chap V, Online copy of (an English translation of) Church History by Eusebius of Caesarea, where Eusebius describes the legion's miracle of rain event. v t