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Decrement

noun
1.
The amount by which something decreases.  Synonym: decrease.
2.
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.  Synonym: decrease.





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"Decrement" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Eye is so modifi'd, as by differing Impressions variously to affect the Organs of Sight. I might here take notice of the pleasing variety of Colours exhibited by the Triangular glass, (as 'tis wont to be call'd) and demand, what addition or decrement of either Salt, Sulphur, or Mercury, befalls the Body of the Glass by being Prismatically figur'd; and yet 'tis known, that without that shape it would not affor'd those colours as it does. But because it may be objected, that these ...
— The Sceptical Chymist • Robert Boyle


Words linked to "Decrement" :   narrowing, decline, dip, diminution, wastage, physical process, fall, amount, desensitization, process, decay, increment, increase, decrease, slippage, shrinkage, free fall, drop, desensitisation


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