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
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
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
This can relate to nothing else but a society, or body politic, where there is a continual decrement, yet part still remains; and the whole is kept up by succession.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Jacob Bryant
