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.
The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.
Withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous; the making of oneself inconspicuous.