This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Another word for decrement

a-z
Noun

  1. The act or process of decreasing

      1. (Law) The termination of a suit, quashing of a nuisance, etc.
      2. The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed; in particular from a tax. [Late 15th century.]
      3. (Law) The act of reducing something, such as a tax, for some period of time or of eliminating something, such as a nuisance, permanently.
      1. A movie at a given stage in its editing:
      2. A part that has been cut from a main body:
      3. A reduction:
      1. (Roofing) Solvent-thinned bitumen used in cold process roofing adhesives, cements and coatings.
      2. A reduction or discontinuance, as of production, personnel, etc.
      3. The act or result of cutting back
      1. A decreasing; lessening; diminution
      2. The amount by which something decreases.
      3. The act or process of decreasing.
      1. The act of diminishing; reducing in size, quantity, or quality.
      1. (Music) Variation of a theme by shortening, usually halving, the time value of the notes
      2. (Music) Statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration, usually one-half, of the original.
      3. The resulting reduction; decrease.
      1. Something that causes a gradual loss:
      2. (Surgery) A tube or other device for drawing off discharge, fluid, etc. from a cavity, wound, etc.
      3. (Medicine) A device, such as a tube, inserted into the opening of a wound or body cavity to facilitate discharge of fluid or purulent material.
      1. (Chemistry) A decrease in positive valence or an increase in negative valence by the gaining of electrons.
      2. The result of reducing:
      3. Anything made or brought about by reducing, as a smaller copy, lowered price, sauce of concentrated liquid, etc.
      1. A decorative slit in a fabric or garment.
      2. A short diagonal line (/) used between two words to show that either is applicable (and/or), in dates or fractions (3/8), to express “per” (feet/second), etc.; virgule
      3. A cut made by or as by such a stroke; gash; slit
      1. A slowing down, as of production
      2. The act or process of slowing down; a slackening of pace:
      3. A reduction in speed, or a decrease in the level of production, etc.
      1. A small or very slender candle.
      2. A wax candle, esp. a long, slender one
      3. A long wax-coated wick used to light candles or gas lamps.
    See also:

    increase

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Sentence Examples

  • If the conductor consists of a coil of wire the ends of which are connected with a suitable galvanometer, the integral electromotive force due to a sudden increase or decrease of the induction through the coil displaces in the circuit a quantity of electricity Q=SBns R, where SB is the increment or decrement of induction per square centimetre, s is the area of the coil, n the number of turns of wire, and R the resistance of the circuit.

  • The increment of this area (or the decrement of the negative area E--04) at constant temperature represents the external work obtainable from the substance in isothermal expansion, in the same way that the decrement of the intrinsic energy represents the work done in adiabatic expansion.

  • These functions do not, however, represent energy existing in the substance, like the intrinsic energy; but the increment of 90 represents heat supplied to, and the decrement of (E-04) represents work obtainable from, the substance when the temperature is kept constant.

  • Lord Kelvin has applied the principles of Thermodynamics to determine the thermal effects of increasing or diminishing the area of the free surface of a liquid, and has shown that in order to keep the temperature constant while the area of the surface increases by unity, an amount of heat must be supplied 275 to the liquid which is dynamically equivalent to the product of the absolute temperature into the decrement of the surface-tension per degree of temperature.

  • More importantly, degrading exterior letters produced a greater decrement in performance relative to degrading other letter pairs.

More sentences →

Words that mention decrement in the Dictionary

Words near decrement in the Thesaurus