decay: signification et définitions

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Qu'est-ce qu'un decay?

Qu'est-ce qu'un decay?

  • Biology To break down into component parts; rot.
  • Physics To disintegrate or diminish by radioactive decay.
  • Electronics To decrease gradually in magnitude. Used of voltage or current.
  • Aerospace To decrease in orbit. Used of an artificial satellite.
  • To fall into ruin: a civilization that had begun to decay.
  • Pathology To decline in health or vigor; waste away.
  • To decline from a state of normality, excellence, or prosperity; deteriorate.
  • To cause to decay.
  • The destruction or decomposition of organic matter as a result of bacterial or fungal action; rot.
  • Rotted matter.
  • Physics Radioactive decay.
  • Aerospace The decrease in orbital altitude of an artificial satellite as a result of conditions such as atmospheric drag.
  • A gradual deterioration to an inferior state: tooth decay; urban decay.
  • A falling into ruin.

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