Decrease

(noun.) the act of decreasing or reducing something.

(noun.) the amount by which something decreases.

(noun.) a change downward; 'there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided'; 'there was a sharp drop-off in sales'.

(noun.) a process of becoming smaller or shorter.

(verb.) decrease in size, extent, or range; 'The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester'; 'The cabin pressure fell dramatically'; 'her weight fell to under a hundred pounds'; 'his voice fell to a whisper'.

(verb.) make smaller; 'He decreased his staff'.

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• Only those who know of the suffering endured in former times can fully appreciate the decrease in pain brought about by the proper use of narcotics. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This heavy oil engine, weighing about five hundred pounds per horse-power, was not adapted to the submarine, and efforts have been made to decrease the weight. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Not only was her agriculture thereby threatened with a great decrease in crop production but her supply of military explosives was also threatened. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Will Inventions Continue to Increase or Decrease. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In tea and distilled spirits there has been a decrease, while the consumption of wines is the smallest of all and has varied but little. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He alleges a visible decrease of the human species which has never been made good in some of the fairest countries of the globe. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Grounds of the suspicion that the Value of Silver still continues to decrease. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The yield from both sources has considerably decreased. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• To these inventions might be added many others which have increased the efficiency and production of the business world and have decreased the labor and strain of domestic life. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The usual practice in forging is to continue it until the ingot is decreased to one-half its original thickness and is within two inches of the desired diameter of the finished work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Agriculture must have declined, and the population notably decreased through the plagues and distresses from which it had suffered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Decreased Cost of Electricity. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But all this while, the cost of electricity has steadily decreased. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• One light-measuring scale depends upon the law that the intensity of illumination decreases with the square of the distance of the object from the light. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• That is what happens when you telephone, but when you realize it the mystery gains rather than decreases. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The pressure at an outlet decreases as the level of the water supply sinks. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The power of adjustment in general decreases with age. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• As the distance decreases the echo repeats fewer syllables till it becomes monosyllabic. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• As the pressure on the gas increases, its volume decreases. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Later, in Section 288, we learned that the strength of the current decreases as the resistance in circuit increases. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The instruments show a rapidly decreasing air pressure on all parts of Barsoom--the engine has stopped. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• It was Death himself, they declared, come visibly to seize on subject earth, and quell at once our decreasing numbers, sole rebels to his law. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• One great factor in this change has been the decreasing cost of electricity. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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