degeneracy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From degenerate + -cy.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]degeneracy (countable and uncountable, plural degeneracies)
- The state of being degenerate (in all senses).
- 1893, Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education, page 133:
- Inveterate abuse of drinking in nonhereditarily disposed persons creates a degeneracy like the hereditary.
- (neuroscience) The ability of one part of the brain to take over another's function without being overexerted.
- Coordinate term: compensation
- (mathematics) A limiting case of a class of objects which appears to be qualitatively different from (and usually simpler than) the rest of the class.
Translations
[edit]degeneration — see degeneration