To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
Loss of airspeed due to drag.
To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
To cause to rot or deteriorate.
Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
To rot, to go bad.
To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
A deterioration of condition; loss of status or fortune.
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.
To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
Said of a time period that comes to an end.
Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
The end of a period.
The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
A child.
A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
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