DECREMENT, noun 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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