decrement
Example Sentences
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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
And so to qualify for the settlement, they have to show a larger decrement in cognitive function.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2021
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
According to the law of the decrement of heat, three hundred and fifty toises in height produce in this latitude only three or four degrees difference in temperature.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
