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How to pronounce “decay”
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Pronunciation guide for decay
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of decay with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far
it will decay in 10 minutes.
- Definition summary
- (ecology, medicine) The process or result of being gradually decomposed; rot, decomposition.
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How to pronounce decay
The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far
it will decay in 10 minutes.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “decay”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (ecology, medicine) The process or result of being gradually decomposed; rot, decomposition.
- A deterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune.
- (obsolete) Overthrow, downfall, destruction, ruin.
- (programming) The situation, in programming languages such as C, where an array loses its type and dimensions and is reduced to a pointer, for example by passing it to a function.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- (intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- (intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.
- (programming, intransitive) Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
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