Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word DEGRADATION

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Definitions of DEGRADATION

1. The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society
2. The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.
3. Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
4. A deleterious change in the chemical structure, physical properties or appearance of a material from natural or artificial exposure.
5. The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
6. Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
7. The gradual breakdown of components of a material, as a result of a natural element, i.e.: heat, cold and wind.
8. (geology) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.

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Examples of Using DEGRADATION in a Sentence

• The country's natural richness is also the subject of significant global interest, as environmental degradation (through processes such as deforestation) has direct impacts on global issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss.
• Desertification is a type of gradual land degradation of fertile land into arid desert due to a combination of natural processes and human activities.
• It can additionally be defined as doubt about the authenticity or severity of environmental degradation.
• Besides degradation of polymers, the lysosome is involved in cell processes of secretion, plasma membrane repair, apoptosis, cell signaling, and energy metabolism.
• Mass deacidification is a term used in library and information science as one possible measure against the degradation of paper in old books, the so-called "slow fires".
• Model Autophagy Disorder, a variant of model collapse, the gradual degradation in the output of a generative artificial intelligence model trained on synthetic data intelligence.
• Protein biosynthesis (or protein synthesis) is a core biological process, occurring inside cells, balancing the loss of cellular proteins (via degradation or export) through the production of new proteins.
• Adaptive communications can mean any communications system, or portion thereof, that automatically uses feedback information obtained from the system itself or from the signals carried by the system to modify dynamically one or more of the system operational parameters to improve system performance or to resist degradation.
• A dispersion-limited operation is an operation of a communications link in which signal waveform degradation attributable to the dispersive effects of the communications medium is the dominant mechanism that limits link performance.
• In a system the mean time between outages (MTBO) is the mean time between equipment failures that result in loss of system continuity or unacceptable degradation.
• Noise figure (NF) and noise factor (F) are figures of merit that indicate degradation of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) that is caused by components in a signal chain.
• The academic discipline offers wide-ranging studies integrating ecological social sciences with political economy in topics such as degradation and marginalization, environmental conflict, conservation and control, and environmental identities and social movements.
• All animals need pantothenic acid in order to synthesize coenzyme A (CoA), which is essential for cellular energy production and for the synthesis and degradation of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats.
• In most, if not all species possessing them, they protect the terminal regions of chromosomal DNA from progressive degradation and ensure the integrity of linear chromosomes by preventing DNA repair systems from mistaking the very ends of the DNA strand for a double-strand break.
• Effects of land use choices and changes by humans include for example urban sprawl, soil erosion, soil degradation, land degradation and desertification.
• water pollution, degradation of coral reefs, overfishing (Mauritius), sea wreck pollution (Cargados Carajos Shoals), Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing by foreign, primarily Taiwanese commercial vessels and Mauritian Fishing Cooperatives, invasive alien species, illegal net fishing in the St.
• Soil degradation may also be viewed as any change or ecological disturbance to the soil perceived to be deleterious or undesirable.
• Upon his arrest, he was sentenced to degradation and deported to the penal colony on Devil's Island to be imprisoned until his death.
• In other words, environmental geology is the application of geological information to solve conflicts, minimizing possible adverse environmental degradation, or maximizing possible advantageous conditions resulting from the use of natural and modified environment.
• Oxo Biodegradable, degradation resulting from oxidative and cell-mediated phenomena, either simultaneously or successively.
• Ecological approaches to anarchism were first formulated during the 19th century, as the rise of capitalism and colonialism caused environmental degradation.
• After World War One, with improvements to the roads and railways, logging increased massively, peaking in 1961, almost entirely stripping the Otway Ranges of its old-growth forest and causing land degradation issues, but has since been greatly reduced.
• Today the erosion of this significant landscape is lessening, but as a result of past degradation, the sands are left very weathered, leached and lacking in nutrients.
• Improved farming techniques in the 1940s and 1950s curbed further land degradation, which contributed significantly to Yanceyville's economic development and revitalization.
• There are several types of resource depletion, including but not limited to: mining for fossil fuels and minerals, deforestation, pollution or contamination of resources, wetland and ecosystem degradation, soil erosion, overconsumption, aquifer depletion, and the excessive or unnecessary use of resources.

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