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How to pronounce “decimation”
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Pronunciation guide for decimation
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of decimation with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- A Bold Plan to Rewild the Earth — at Massive Scale
to witness the decimation of wild nature
- Definition summary
- (Ancient Rome, strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
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How to pronounce decimation
A Bold Plan to Rewild the Earth — at Massive Scale
to witness the decimation of wild nature
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “decimation”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (Ancient Rome, strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
- (generally) The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
- A tithe or the act of tithing.
- (mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.
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