0 the process in which the beauty or quality of something is destroyed or spoiled:
environmental degradation
1 the situation in which people are made to feel they have no value:
2 the process by which something is made worse, esp. the quality of land:
One of the effects of environmental degradation is the absence of fish in that river.
The normal states correspond with, among other things, to the functioning modes and the abnormal states with the possible system degradations.
Here time discipline is put to the service not of virtuous self-culture, but the opposite, the degradation of the operatives as moral beings.
At the inter-state level, the environmental degradation of one country could easily affect the environments of neighboring states.
Furthermore, the removal of a binomially distributed number of molecules can (in this case) be seen as independent degradation.
To our knowledge, this was the first analysis of the drastic mesoscopic consequences of intracellular zero-order degradation.
Though this may have certain advantages, it is unclear whether such a change is to be considered an improvement or a degradation of cost-effectiveness analysis.
Lipoxygenases may also contribute to cell elongation or degradation by modifying cell membrane phospholipid composition.
Multiple proteases may also be involved in the degradation of the many protein precursors found in the developing seed.
