Degradation
Degradation or degradation (from Latin degrado "to reduce") stands for:
- Demotion (rank) , lowering of a rank in a hierarchy
- Degradation (canon law) , procedure to withdraw the spiritual dignity of priests
- Decomposition (chemistry) , decomposition of compounds or material breakdown
- Material fatigue , loss of material properties
- Aging behavior of solar cells, see solar module #Degradation
- creeping reduction in the capacity of accumulators, see capacity (galvanic cell) #degradation
- Proteolysis , loss of function of proteins through enzymatic cleavage
- Soil degradation , deterioration of soil properties
- Mixing of sorted size distribution of rock fragments, see grading
- Quality reduction of image and sound data through compression, see data compression #Lossy compression
- Damage to a signal in data technology, see bit error frequency
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Wiktionary: degrade - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
