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Decrement in a sentence
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Decrement meaning
- A small quantity removed or lost; one of a series of regular subtractions.
- The subtraction itself; decrease.
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Non-isolated systems may lose entropy, provided their environment's entropy increases by at least that decrement.
In fact, two of the three methods that all COM objects must provide (in the IUnknown interface) increment or decrement the reference count.
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.
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.
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.
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").
Common combinations with decrement
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