decrease
IPA: dɪkrˈis
noun
- An amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased.
- (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting).
verb
- (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
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Examples of "decrease" in Sentences
- The volume of the oil decreases.
- They also decrease the porosity.
- A decrease is called a decrement.
- The amount of the ration is decreased.
- It decreases the readability of the article.
- In the troposphere, temperature decreases with altitude.
- It decreases hematocrit and disturbances in coagulation.
- With the decrease in employment, the earnings for nurses also decreased.
- The most pronounced decrease in ozone has been in the lower stratosphere.
- How do we know that the decrease is not the consequence of fewer females conceived in the 1980s when abortion was at its peak?
- April 2nd, 2010 9: 39 am ET yeah, an increase and decrease is NO better than drastic losses during Duh Duh Duh-byas reign of error
- When you're in school now, the overreaction to this and that and the strictness and what they call the decrease, I'm calling the police.
- The unemployment rate for workers with unemployment insurance for the week ended Sept. 18 was 3.5%, a 0.1 percentage point decrease from the prior week's revised rate of 3.6%.
- France has a lower level of inequality than most of the OECD countries and is one of only 5 - out of 30 OECD countries -- that saw inequality decrease from the mid-80s to the mid-2000s.
- Over the last three months, which ended in September, that average plummeted to about 33,000 per month, a 41 percent decrease from the year's second quarter, according to data from Treasury.
- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has reduced antlerless permits by 51 percent from 2,882 to 1,400 during 2000-2004 and recently proposed 100 permits for 2006 – a 96 percent decrease from the 2,660 permits issued in 1995. any wonder hunters are getting totally miffed by the [apparent] lack of proper game management and wolves?