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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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This factor multiplies the sampling interval or, equivalently, divides the sampling rate. For example, if compact disc audio at 44,100 samples/second is decimated by a factor of 5/4, the resulting sample rate is 35,280. A system component that performs decimation is called a decimator.
The emergency response has been hampered by hundreds of decimated roads and downed bridges and complicated by lingering communication outages. ... “I mean, they really love this teacher,” he ...
Ms MacLean told the newspaper that the Cookie Monster couldn’t just eat any old cookie – they have to be perfectly constructed to give the illusion they disappear when decimated by the monster.
On 18 May 1918, four battalions of the 32nd division replaced decimated French troops on the front line at Haute Alsace, along a 17 miles (27 km) front from the Aspach-le-Bas to the Swiss border. The division's units conducted combat patrols into Germany itself, gaining the distinction of being the first US troops to set foot on enemy soil in ...
The effort to overturn Act 10 began in November 2023 when several unions representing public employees filed the lawsuit, citing a "dire situation" in workplaces with issues including low pay ...
With no way to care and feed the prisons, the Scottish prisoners were "decimated" meaning one in ten of the healthiest prisoners were gathered and transported to a British prison in London from which he was sold to Boston Iron Works where he was forced to work indentured for seven years.