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US
/ˌdɪməˈnuʃən/
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[ UK /dɪmɪnjˈuːʃən/ ]
[ UK /dɪmɪnjˈuːʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of decreasing or reducing something
- the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original)
- change toward something smaller or lower
How To Use diminution In A Sentence
- But it is hard to sustain that insistence on the preservation of the Catholic tradition on the one hand with a total insistence on the diminution of a Protestant tradition on the other.
- Provision for diminution in value of foreign investment are the number of ready?
- The recent diminution on the international scene of these three nations means less illustrious sides are no longer gripped with a fear factor when facing what have tended to be considered behemoths of the game.
- If the above seems to create an "unfair" windfall for stockholders or short term diminution of tax revenues, raise the capital gains rates. Al Checchi: Government's Travels
- Thus diminution of prostacyclin production and stimulation of platelet aggregation both mediated by lipid peroxides could contribute to thrombosis on atheromatous plaques.
- His interest in counterpoint is shown in a set of 120 canons, which use such techniques as augmentation, diminution, and retrograde motion.
- The result was a one-third reduction in the number of robberies and a general diminution of other anti-social incidents.
- It is known also that the Japan camphor, termed factitious, will evaporate till it wholly disappears, and at all stages of its diminution retain its full proportion of strength; which does not seem the property of an adulterated or compounded body. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
- He explained the rationale for such financing: An article of property, insusceptible of division at all, or not without great diminution of its worth, is sometimes of so large value that no purchaser can be found ... A Back-To-Jefferson Solution For The Housing Crisis
- It was proved by Oppolzer [1286] that if the comet of 1843 had entered our system from stellar space with parabolic velocity it would, by the action of a medium such as Encke postulated (varying in density inversely as the square of the distance from the sun), have been brought down, by its first perihelion passage, to elliptic movement in a period of twenty-four years, with such rapid diminution that its next return would be in about ten. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition