A slaughter; destruction of life, notably on a large scale.
The shedding or spilling of blood.
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.