decimation

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˌdɛsɪˈmeɪʃən/

Noun

countable uncountable

(strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot. / (generally) The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population. / A tithe or the act of tithing.

Japanese Meaning

厳密な意味：抽選によって10人に1人を殺害または処罰する行為 / 一般的な意味：多数の人口の一部を大量に殺害または破壊する行為 / 十分の一に当たる献上、すなわち十分の一を捧げる行為

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

作戦中、司令官は反乱を罰するために、くじで選ばれた十人に一人を処刑するという処罰を実行した。

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Sense（1）

(strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.

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Sense（2）

(generally) The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.

1702: Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana - And the whole army had cause to enquire into their own rebellions, when they saw the Lord of Hosts, with a dreadful decimation, taking off so many of our brethren by the worst of executioners.

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Sense（3）

A tithe or the act of tithing.

Sense（4）

(mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.

Sense（5）

(signal processing) A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling

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