DECREMENT, n. 1. Decrease; waste; the state of becoming less gradually.Rocks and mountains suffer a continual decrement.2. The quantity lost by gradual diminution, or waste.3. In heraldry, the wane of the moon.4. 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.
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