decimation

Signification (Anglais)

1. (Ancient-Rome, countable, uncountable) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
2. (countable, uncountable) The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
3. (countable, uncountable) A tithe or the act of tithing.
4. (countable, uncountable) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.
5. (countable, uncountable) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.

Concepts

décimation

élagage des données

élimination sélective de données

allégement des données

Synonymes

desolation

destruction

devastation

dispersion

genocide

holocaust

ruin

thinning

thinning-out

Traductions

decimazione

estrago

Dezimierung

αποδεκάτισμα

delmació

αποδεκατισμός

slachting

eliminación selectiva de datos

örnek seyreltme

القتل

onda birini öldürme

تخفيف البيانات

تجريد البيانات

Deziemierung

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˌdɛsɪˈmeɪʃən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Borrowed from Latin decimātiō, a punishment where every 10th man in a unit would be stoned to death by the men who were spared. Used by the Romans to keep order in their military. Compare septimation and vicesimation.