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 decreasing [dɪ'kris]   添加此单词到默认生词本
[计] 下降的

  1. Interest in the sport is decreasing.
    人们对此项运动的兴趣已逐渐淡薄.
  2. Toy sales peaked just before Christmas and are now decreasing.
    玩具销售额在圣诞节前夕达到最高峰, 现已逐渐下降.
  3. An electromagnetic wave of audio frequency produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning, having a characteristically decreasing frequency responsible for a whistling sound of descending pitch in detection equipment.
    啸声干扰一种由于诸如闪电等大气干扰而产生的音频电磁波,具有典型的逐渐减弱频率的特征,该频减引起了检波设备中调逐渐下降的啸声


decreasing
[ adj ]
  1. becoming less or smaller

  2. <adj.all>
  3. music

  4. <adj.all>


Decrease \De*crease"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Decreased}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Decreasing}.] [OE. decrecen, fr. OF. decreistre, F.
d['e]cro[^i]tre, or from the OF. noun (see {Decrease}, n.),
fr. L. decrescere to grow less; de + crescere to grow. See
{Crescent}, and cf. {Increase}.]
To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished
gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in
strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in
length from June to December.

He must increase, but I must decrease. --John iii.
30.

Syn: To {Decrease}, {Diminish}.

Usage: Things usually decrease or fall off by degrees, and
from within, or through some cause which is
imperceptible; as, the flood decreases; the cold
decreases; their affection has decreased. Things
commonly diminish by an influence from without, or one
which is apparent; as, the army was diminished by
disease; his property is diminishing through
extravagance; their affection has diminished since
their separation their separation. The turn of
thought, however, is often such that these words may
be interchanged.

The olive leaf, which certainly them told
The flood decreased. --Drayton.

Crete's ample fields diminish to our eye;
Before the Boreal blasts the vessels fly.
--Pope.


Decreasing \De*creas"ing\, a.
Becoming less and less; diminishing. -- {De*creas"ing*ly},
adv.

{Decreasing series} (Math.), a series in which each term is
numerically smaller than the preceding term.

  1. After three years of increasing chaos and decreasing profits, Pillsbury has little time to find a winning recipe.
  2. A falling dollar is supposed to make U.S. imports more expensive, decreasing demand for them.
  3. Vanguard did recently begin fiddling with one of its corporate bond funds by decreasing the average quality of the bonds in the portfolio from double-A (the highest quality) to single-A, which pay higher rates.
  4. "As the threat is decreasing appreciably, the alliance must keep the initiative in the field of disarmament and arms control and review its strategy and structure accordingly," he said.
  5. A top-ranking army official said Sunday that violence in the Israeli-occupied territories was decreasing.
  6. Airlines say that such mistakes are decreasing in the aftermath of Sioux City, but proponents of the safety devices say they still get complaints from parents.
  7. While the number of pardons has been decreasing, the number of criminals being sent to state prisons has increased by 40 percent between 1983 and 1987 and the crime rate has dropped 13.4 percent, said Dave Wood, a Dukakis press aide.
  8. Britain's inflation rate, the worst among the major industrialized nations, is expected to move up to 9 percent before decreasing.
  9. Although the aftershocks are generally decreasing in magnitude, there is still a small chance of a strong temblor measuring 5.0 or more on the Richter scale of ground movement in the next few days, said USGS seismologist William Bakun.
  10. If anything, the expanded IRAs might damp the recovery by decreasing consumer spending.
  11. And although oil prices increased earlier this week partly because of the storm, the decreasing chance that Gilbert would seriously disrupt energy production in the Gulf helped curb the recent rally.
  12. Between decreasing enrollment and early season injuries to upper classmen, the Deerfield Demons were fielding a team composed mostly of freshmen and sophomores.
  13. Funding for research and cleanup on the Great Lakes has been decreasing, she said, even though contaminated sediments are a more chronic problem than phosphates.
  14. In recent years, however, the attacks had been steadily decreasing with the strengthening of a Thai anti-piracy program coordinated by the UNHCR and funded by Western nations, mostly the United States.
  15. The reader must presume later from the context that the concentration is not excessive as long as it is decreasing over time.
  16. Research dollars are decreasing, he said.
  17. Tests near the Tatum dome show tritium levels are increasing in overflow ponds when they should be decreasing, he said.
  18. For instance, the recent plunge in Tokyo's stock market is eroding the capital base of Japan's big banks, which in turn is decreasing the flow of capital to other countries.
  19. Election years, for some time now, have shown decreasing numbers of the electorate turning out to vote.
  20. 'The demands and expectations for them to deliver services is increasing while the funding available is decreasing.' The survey shows that one in seven charities has cut services.
  21. It simply doesn't make sense that lead poisoning would double from one year to the next in an environment of decreasing lead exposure.
  22. 'The last three to four years it has been a steadily decreasing market.
  23. The cost of new weapons and decreasing defense budgets are forcing more countries, including some NATO members, to upgrade their armored vehicles rather than buy new ones, a new Jane's yearbook said today.
  24. The underlying economic message, say most economists, is fairly clear: decreasing mortgage rates are finally persuading people to buy houses.
  25. Under the latest offer, Mr. Scharffenberger would receive as severance this year's salary of at least $750,000 plus a five-year consulting contract with a decreasing fee in each successive year.
  26. You're going to have two or three years of decreasing crime in areas that you're impacting.
  27. In another statement that has been called into question, Crowe said Sunday that the airplane was "decreasing in altitude as it neared the ship."
  28. The government appeal today appeared to conflict with statements earlier by Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov, who said the violence was decreasing.
  29. A federal judge lifted that injunction in December, allowing the company to begin selling the patches, which leach nicotine into the skin in gradually decreasing doses over ten weeks to wean smokers from cravings for the drug.
  30. That isn't quite as good as it sounds because Ford, unlike Honda, sells its cars to rental fleets, although those sales are decreasing.
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