Found 4 items, similar to Decreasing.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: decrease
mengurangi
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: decrease
berkurang, mengandakkan, mengurangi, menurunkan, menyurutkan, pengurangan, potongan, susut
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: decreasing
decreasing
adj 1: becoming less or smaller [ant:
increasing]
2: music [ant:
increasing]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Decreasing
Decrease
\De*crease"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Decreased; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Decreasing.] [OE. decrecen, fr. OF. decreistre, F.
d['e]cro[^i]tre, or from the OF. noun (see
Decrease, n.),
fr. L. decrescere to grow less; de + crescere to grow. See
Crescent, and cf.
Increase.]
To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished
gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in
strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in
length from June to December.
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He must increase, but I must decrease. --John iii.
30.
Syn: To
Decrease,
Diminish.
Usage: Things usually decrease or fall off by degrees, and
from within, or through some cause which is
imperceptible; as, the flood decreases; the cold
decreases; their affection has decreased. Things
commonly diminish by an influence from without, or one
which is apparent; as, the army was diminished by
disease; his property is diminishing through
extravagance; their affection has diminished since
their separation their separation. The turn of
thought, however, is often such that these words may
be interchanged.
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The olive leaf, which certainly them told
The flood decreased. --Drayton.
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Crete's ample fields diminish to our eye;
Before the Boreal blasts the vessels fly.
--Pope.
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Decreasing
\De*creas"ing\, a.
Becoming less and less; diminishing. --
De*creas"ing*ly,
adv.
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Decreasing series (Math.), a series in which each term is
numerically smaller than the preceding term.
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