annihilation vs decimation

annihilation

noun
  • The state of being annihilated. 

  • The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence. 

  • The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy. 

  • The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it. 

decimation

noun
  • The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population. 

  • A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling 

  • The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence. 

  • A tithe or the act of tithing. 

  • The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot. 

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