0 the act of killing a something in large numbers, or reducing something severely -- 毀滅，大量殺戮；大幅削減
the virtual decimation of the population through influenza 因為流行感冒而造成的實際人口減少
In it, the 'decimation' at the heart of the interior was amplified with a woman's hysterical laughter turning into a hiccuping scream.
Therefore, the decimation should not have any significant effect on our numerical computation.
The result has been a total decimation and destruction of the local economy, which has aggravated poverty, unemployment and hunger, and fuelled a regime of anger, bitterness and frustration.
Overlap is measured using a decimation factor, which indicates the number of overlaps throughout the duration of a single window.
The half-rate data is produced by a decimation process which simply discards alternate samples of a low-pass filtered (to remove aliasing distortion) version of the original signal.
Assuming a decimation factor of 8, using equation (7) and rounding the result to the nearest integer, the number of frames analysed in one second is 86.
Biocentric consequentialism is capable of supporting a sustainable human population at a level compatible with preserving most non-human species, as opposed to catastrophic population increases or catastrophic decimation.
Responding to the massive decimation of crops by locust swarms in the mid-1890s, people not only engaged in protective rituals but also asserted official culpability for the disaster.
