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- Decrement - n. - The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
- Decrement - n. - The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment.
- Decrement - n. - A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.
- Decrement - n. - The quantity by which a variable is diminished.
- Factorial - n. - A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials.