Dictionary Entry
decrement
decrement is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
- 2noun
The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment.
- 3noun
A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.
- 4noun
The quantity by which a variable is diminished.
- 5noun
the amount by which something decreases
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- 6noun
a process of becoming smaller or shorter
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- 7noun
The act or process of decreasing; a reduction.
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