decrement
decrement
Definition
dec·re·ment (dek′rə mənt)
noun
- a decreasing or decrease; loss; waste
- amount lost by decrease or waste
- Math. the quantity by which a variable decreases or is decreased: a negative decrement results in an increase
Etymology: L decrementum < decrescere, decrease
decrement
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- produce: More importantly, degrading exterior letters produced a greater decrement in performance relative to degrading other letter pairs.
- cause: Any age-related loss in leg muscle mass would cause further decrements in performance.
- find: Hodes [ 52 ] found a decrement of the compound muscle action potential amplitude on repetitive stimulation in patients with previous paralytic polio.
Preposition: in
- performance: Any age-related loss in leg muscle mass would cause further decrements in performance.
- capacity: Overtraining syndrome ( OTS ) is an accumulation of training-related stress resulting in a persistent decrement in performance capacity lasting weeks or months.
- function: Supplementation was found to significantly attenuate the O 3 -induced decrements in lung function in both studies.
Adjective modifier
- dual: BLANDFORD, A. See MAY, BARNARD & BLANDFORD APU 2936 BOURKE, P.A. APU 3050 A general factor in dual task performance decrement.
- logarithmic: Understand the concept of damping and the meaning of damped natural frequency, damping factor and logarithmic decrement.
- other: The present value will use the Company's best estimates of future expense, tax, mortality and other decrements.
- small: Obscuring body and gait produced a small decrement in recognition performance.
- single: Events per women months and single decrement life-table probabilities were extracted for pregnancy, continuation, adverse events and reasons for discontinuation.
Modifies a noun
- operator: Note The increment and decrement operators can only be applied to variable expressions to which a value can be assigned.
- operation: The operations carried out by IDL to execute a prefix increment or decrement operation are: Fetch the target variable.
- factor: Reduce the decrement factor, thereby reducing the swings in heat flow.
- instruction: That move into AX and OR statement are totally unnecessary operations since the decrement instruction directly above them sets the zero flag anyway!
- count: This, of course, causes the program to loop back to the DECFSZ instruction to decrement count once more.
Noun used with modifier
- performance: Sleep length can be reduced one to two hours without performance decrement over an extended period.
- task: BLANDFORD, A. See MAY, BARNARD & BLANDFORD APU 2936 BOURKE, P.A. APU 3050 A general factor in dual task performance decrement.
- router: Therefore, each router decrements ( subtracts 1 ) from the TTL field.
- value: Every time a packet is routed, this value decrements by one.
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