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What is the noun for decimates?

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decimation
  1. (strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
  2. (generally) The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
  3. A tithe or the act of tithing.
  4. (mathematics) The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.
  5. (telecommunications) A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The decimation of the landscape crushes the people's collective psyche.”
      “The most affecting scenes in the novel are those depicting the decimation wrought by this plague-like contagion.”
      “Today I read that we are facing the biggest decimation of species in the history of the planet.”
decimate
  1. (obsolete) A tithe or other 10% tax or payment.
  2. (obsolete) A tenth of something.
  3. (obsolete) A set of ten items.
  4. Synonyms:
decimator
decimations
decimators
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