decrement
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- noun
- /ˈdɛkrɪmənt/
- Specialized
- Chi-square difference tests were calculated to evaluate the decrement in fit with each successive model.
- performance decrement
- increment or decrement
- decrement in intrinsic motivation
Examples
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All three groups of players showed a significant decrement in playoff PC/M from their regular-season PC/M.
Academic text (1996) -
In this study, disability refers to any decrement in functioning in a chosen set of domains, irrespective of health condition.
Academic text (2013) -
In general, greater perceived stress leads to a decrement in athletic performance.
Academic text (1996) -
When the novel images are presented inverted, they should not lead to a significant decrement in recognition performance.
Academic text (2004) -
Several conversion process events, however, resulted in both an increment and decrement of resources.
Academic text (1994) -
We were not looking at diseases as such, but at decrements in functioning independent of causation.
Academic text (2013) -
However, unlike cognitive evaluation theory, no prediction of a decrement is suggested following task-completion rewards.
Academic text (2004) -
Both groups of children in the current study demonstrated decrements in semantic depth scores across multiple trials.
Academic text (2012) -
In the present study, distractibility was measured as decrements in task performance under visual and auditory distraction.
Academic text (1990) -
For each year of delayed schooling, students experienced a significant decrement of five IQ points.
Synonyms
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3.2
A decrease in size, amount, degree, or price
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To make something less in amount, value, or level
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2.2
A drop in amount or number
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5.3
A decrease in how much of something is left, often until it is used up
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5.1
A decrease in size, amount, or value
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6.8
A reduction in something harmful or unwanted
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4.6
A decrease in amount or level, for example moving to a lower job
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3.2
A decrease in size, amount, or value
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A decrease in size, amount, or importance
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3.8
A decrease in amount, size, or strength
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6.7
A decrease in size, strength or importance
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A cut that reduces something or stops it earlier than planned
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4.0
A drop in the number or amount of something
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A slow reduction in size or amount done in stages
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A slow decrease in size, number, or strength
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Becoming smaller or less over time until almost gone
An action that makes a number smaller by one
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
decrement = de + crement
Although the prefix 'de-' signals reduction, the element 'crement' is not a productive standalone English root and the word is a learned borrowing, so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning from its parts.
Etymology
Decrement comes from old Latin parts de- 'down' and crescere 'to grow', the same root you see in increase and crescent. So a decrement is a 'growing down', an amount that makes something smaller.