Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.)
The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.
Decimation, Decimate, or variants may refer to: Decimation (punishment), punitive discipline; Decimation (signal processing), reduction of digital signal's sampling rate;
Now, 18 years later, the dress reveal has become a staple of the family’s holiday festivities, which Ava, a singer-songwriter in Franklin, Tenn., looks forward to opening all year.
Planning to retire at a specific age often involves careful preparation, but reality doesn't always align with expectations. A new study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) found ...
"Any piece of information, no matter how small, could make a difference." JonBenét's brother John Andrew Ramsey told The Post. "Your decision to come forward could help bring the answers we so ...
For example, newspapers, scientific journals, and fictional essays have somewhat different conventions for the placement of paragraph breaks. A common English usage misconception is that a paragraph has three to five sentences; single-word paragraphs can be seen in some professional writing, and journalists often use single-sentence paragraphs. [7]