Word of the Day:
diminution
What It Means
A lessening, decrease or reduction.
The act or process of making diminutive.
a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.
The new emission standards have produced a measurable diminution in air pollution.
Diminution in Context
“Another part, feeling a diminution of confidence in him, still hope that the general tenor of his conduct will be essentially right.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English diminucioun, from Anglo-Norman diminuciun, Old French diminucion, from Latin dīminūtiō.
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