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In reference to people engaged in an endeavor together, as in musical performance (other words denote three or more people in the same context: trio, quartet, etc.) Grand: 1,000 Slang for a thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. Gross: 144 Twelve dozen Score: 20
Decimation. Etching by William Hogarth in Beaver's Roman Military Punishments (1725). In the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio ' removal of a tenth ' [1]) was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort.
Rate reduction by an integer factor M can be explained as a two-step process, with an equivalent implementation that is more efficient: [5] Reduce high-frequency signal components with a digital lowpass filter. Decimate the filtered signal by M; that is, keep only every M th sample.
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Decimation, Decimate, or variants may refer to: Decimation (punishment) , punitive discipline Decimation (signal processing) , reduction of digital signal's sampling rate
To reduce something by one tenth is to decimate. (In ancient Rome, the killing of one in ten soldiers in a cohort was the punishment for cowardice or mutiny; or, one-tenth of the able-bodied men in a village as a form of retribution, thus causing a labor shortage and threat of starvation in agrarian societies.)
A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object, an action on mathematical objects, a relation between mathematical objects, or for structuring the other symbols that occur in a formula.
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