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Decrement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Decrease; waste; the state of becoming less gradually.

2. Rocks and mountains suffer a continual decrement

3. The quantity lost by gradual diminution, or waste.

4. In heraldry, the wane of the moon.

5. In crystalography, a successive diminution of the lamens of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which the secondary forms are supposed to be produced.

Decrement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.

2. The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment.

3. 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.

4. The quantity by which a variable is diminished.