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Decrement meaning
A small quantity removed or lost; one of a series of regular subtractions. | The subtraction itself; decrease.
Example sentences (8)
B also introduced the increment and decrement operators (++ and --); Their prefix or postfix position determines whether the value is taken prior or post alteration of the operand.
For example, the subprogram in Euclid's algorithm to compute the remainder would execute much faster if the programmer had a " modulus " instruction available rather than just subtraction (or worse: just Minsky's "decrement").
In fact, two of the three methods that all COM objects must provide (in the IUnknown interface) increment or decrement the reference count.
Non-isolated systems may lose entropy, provided their environment's entropy increases by at least that decrement.
That is to say, the material must be able to be heated and cooled indefinitely often by the same increment and decrement of heat, and still return to its original pressure, volume and temperature every time.
The decrement in food would have been accompanied by an increase in mortality that would have led to wrecking of the vast production program of the Gulag.
This memory decrement results specifically from the loss of stage 2, NREM sleep. citation Declarative memory has also been shown to benefit from sleep, but not in the same way as procedural memory.
To perform an equivalent loop on an 8080 would require separate decrement and jump (to a two-byte absolute address) instructions, and the flag register would be altered.