decrement

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The best evidence shows children “read faces” even if masked, and people compensate for decrements in acoustical performance, talking more slowly, loudly and gesturing.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2022

We are all humans and we are all prone to the performance decrements of fatigue.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2021

Even tiny increases, below five micrograms, “are associated with significant decrements in performance on standardized tests,” the researchers said.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2016

The importance of the Official World Golf Ranking is exceeded only by how complicated it is, save for MIT graduates who understand the decrements and minimum and maximum devisors that are part of the formula.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013

In point of fact, however, bottles and coffee-pots empty themselves by a finite number of decrements, each of definite amount.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William