decrement
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"There's no good evidence that it causes a long-term or permanent decrement in your memory, but it definitely interferes with people's ability to sort of encode new information."
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2022
Cummings studied 27 subjects in a four-hour-long driving simulation and found that, on average, their vigilance decreased after just under 21 minutes—a physiological phenomenon known as the vigilance decrement.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2018
In fact, Cummings’ team at Duke was successfully able to monitor the vigilance decrement in their research.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2018
It wasn’t quite a hole, but a relative decrement in the quantity of local ozone near the South Pole during a particular time of year.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2016
Decrement -- N. decrement, discount, defect, loss, deduction; afterglow; eduction†; waste.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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