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{{trans-top|To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons.}} |
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Revision as of 13:55, 13 September 2021
English
Etymology
From Middle English decayen, dekeyen (“to decrease, diminish”), from Anglo-Norman decaeir (“to fall away, decay, decline”), from Medieval Latin *dēcadere, restored form of Latin decidere (“to fall away, fail, sink, perish”), from de (“down”) + cadere (“to fall”); compare decadent and decadence.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪ
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Audio (UK): (file)
Noun
decay (countable and uncountable, plural decays)
- The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine:
- I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.
- A deterioration of condition; loss of status or fortune.
- (programming) The situation, in programming languages such as C, where an array loses its type and dimensions and is reduced to a pointer, for example by passing it to a function.
Derived terms
Related terms
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Translations
process or result of being gradually decomposed
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deterioration of condition
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Verb
decay (third-person singular simple present decays, present participle decaying, simple past and past participle decayed)
- (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- The pair loved to take pictures in the decaying hospital on forty-third street.
- (intransitive, electronics, of storage media or the data on them) To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
- (intransitive, computing, of software) To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
- (intransitive, physics, of a satellite's orbit) To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
- 2009, Francis Lyall, Paul B. Larsen, Space Law: A Treatise, page 120:
- Damaged on lift-off, Skylab was left in orbit until its orbit decayed.
- 2009, Francis Lyall, Paul B. Larsen, Space Law: A Treatise, page 120:
- (intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
- The cat's body decayed rapidly.
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons.
- 2005, Encyclopedia of Earth Science (edited by Timothy M. Kusky; →ISBN, page 349:
- Uranium decays to radium through a long series of steps with a cumulative half-life of 4.4 billion years.
- 2005, Encyclopedia of Earth Science (edited by Timothy M. Kusky; →ISBN, page 349:
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- (intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.
- The extreme humidity decayed the wooden sculptures in the museum's collection in a matter of years.
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
- Infirmity, that decays the wise.
- (programming, intransitive) Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
Translations
to deteriorate
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to rot — see rot
To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons.
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Further reading
- “decay”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “decay”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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