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A collection of twelve things or units from Old French dozaine "a dozen, a number of twelve" in various usages, from doze (12c.) [2] Baker's dozen: 13 From the notion that a baker would include an extra item in a batch of twelve so as not to be accused of shortchanging a customer Half-dozen 6 Six of something Decade: 10
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.)
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.
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