Get to know Decrement better with 7 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like decrease or increase.
Decrement in a sentence
Related words
Decrement meaning
- A small quantity removed or lost; one of a series of regular subtractions.
- The subtraction itself; decrease.
Using Decrement
- The main meaning on this page is: A small quantity removed or lost; one of a series of regular subtractions. | The subtraction itself; decrease.
- Useful related words include: decrease, increase, amount, process.
- In the example corpus, decrement often appears in combinations such as: and decrement.
Context around Decrement
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Decrement
- In this selection, "decrement" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, separate and operators stand out and add context to how "decrement" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include increment and decrement of heat and increment and decrement operators and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "decrement" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with decrement
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Non-isolated systems may lose entropy, provided their environment's entropy increases by at least that decrement. (17 words)
In fact, two of the three methods that all COM objects must provide (in the IUnknown interface) increment or decrement the reference count. (23 words)
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. (27 words)
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. (36 words)
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"). (34 words)
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. (28 words)
Example sentences (7)
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.
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.
Common combinations with decrement
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: