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Decrement

DECREMENT, n. 1. Decrease; waste; the state of becoming less gradually. Rocks and mountains suffer a continual decrement. 2. The quantity lost by gradual diminution, or waste. 3. In heraldry, the wane of the m...

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DECREMENT, n.

1. Decrease; waste; the state of becoming less gradually.

Rocks and mountains suffer a continual decrement.

2. The quantity lost by gradual diminution, or waste.

3. In heraldry, the wane of the moon.

4. In crystalography, a successive diminution of the lamens of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which the secondary forms are supposed to be produced.

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