decremental
Americanadjective
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showing a gradual or serial decrease or reduction.
The retina undergoes several decremental functional and structural changes with age.
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being or relating to the amount lost by a gradual or serial reduction.
The pressure on the brake is decreased by a decremental amount each time it is applied by the ABS.
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Mathematics. being or relating to a negative increment.
In an analogous way to the addition operation, we can also use an existing variable for the decremental value of a subtraction operation.
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Physics. relating to the ratio of amplitudes of a damped harmonic motion in the course of two successive oscillations.
The velocity of the decremental voltage wave in response to a stimulus is one of the quantities we can derive.
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Etymology
Origin of decremental
First recorded in 1730–40; decrement ( def. ) + -al 1
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