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How to use diminution in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Diminution means a lessening, decrease or reduction. Example: “The new emission standards have produced a measurable diminution in air pollution.”

Examples of diminution by meaning

nounA lessening, decrease or reduction.

  • The new emission standards have produced a measurable diminution in air pollution.
  • Scenic illusions such as those caused by the haze, or the apparent diminution of scale where everything was enormous, intrigued Dutton.1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN...

More sentences with diminution

  • "This may lead to hypopermeability of the pylorus and diminution of the filling of the bulbus."1922, Teodor Barsony, International Medical and Surgical Survey: Obstetrics and ..., Volume 3, Issue 3. From the entry hypopermeability
  • Austria, a Roman-Catholic power, would not permit a diminution of papal power, or the dispossession of the Austrian granddukes.2012, N. Isser, The Second Empire and the Press, →ISBN. From the entry grandduke
  • Perhaps while confirming the diminution of Pluto's status, the astro-boffins might like to consider a name change for the U-planet.2006 August 19, Jonathan Green, “Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em”, in The Age. From the entry astro-boffin
  • The hyperconcentration of the blood, the increase in the number of red corpuscles, indicate the diminution of humor.1918, Chemical Society, Scientific American Supplement 1918-04-27: Volume 85, Issue 2208, Nature America, Incorporated, page 259. From the entry hyperconcentration
  • Blooms of the marine microalga Fibrocapsa japonica (Raphidophyceae) are suggested to lead to the diminution of fish stocks, but the exact mechanism(s) involved in ichthyotoxicity is still unclear.2013, Issues in Life Sciences—Botany and Plant Biology Research. From the entry ichthyotoxicity
  • God recognized the justice of the moon's plea and compensated for its diminution by promising that only the moon would be seen both day and night.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 8. From the entry justice
  • More broadly, communal biotics, or ethics, elevates diminution of suffering into a common goal, while culture is that aspect of communal biotics in which people share enjoyment.1983, William M. Johnston, The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 200. From the entry biotics
  • We may simply recall that each of the antarakalpas except the last presents us with a picture of a steady diminution in the duration of human life.1983, W. Randolph Kloetzli, Buddhist Cosmology: Science and Theology in the Images of Motion and Light, Motilal Banarsidass, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry antarakalpa
  • Hyperproteinemia associated with obvious increase of the blood proteins is relatively rarely seen in clinical medicine, while serum protein diminution or hypoproteinemia is much more frequently found.1960, Ferdinand Wuhrmann, Charlie Wunderly, The Human Blood Proteins: Methods of Examination and Their Clinical and Practical…. From the entry hypoproteinemia

Meaning of diminution

  1. noun A lessening, decrease or reduction.
  2. noun The act or process of making diminutive.
  3. noun A compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.

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Questions about diminution in a sentence

How do you use diminution in a sentence?
Diminution is used as a noun. For example: “The new emission standards have produced a measurable diminution in air pollution.”
What is a short sentence with diminution?
“The new emission standards have produced a measurable diminution in air pollution.”
What does diminution mean?
Diminution means a lessening, decrease or reduction.

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