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Word: degenerate (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • math a degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.
  • (of a human or system) having lost good or desirable qualities
  • (of an encoding or function) having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range
  • (of qualities) having desirable to an undesirable and typically abnormal

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Noun:

  • One is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.

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Verb:

  • intransitive (of humans or systems) to qualities;

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