- the process of gradually becoming inferior
- disintegrate: lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"
- fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay"
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- the organic phenomenon of rotting
- an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying; "the corpse was in an advanced state of decay"; "the house had fallen into a serious state of decay and disrepair"
- Decay (Jacob Lashinski) was a fictional elderly mutant from Marvel Comics who first appeared in Quicksilver #8.
- Decay is a fictional character owned by DC Comics. She appears as a villain in the Wonder Woman comic book series.
- The Exemplars is a fictional group appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. It was made up of eight humans - Bedlam, Carnivore, Conquest, Decay, Inferno, Juggernaut, Stonecutter, and Tempest - who were empowered by the Octessence.
- Particle decay is the spontaneous process of one elementary particle transforming into other elementary particles. During this process, an elementary particle becomes a different particle with less mass and an intermediate particle such as W boson in muon decay. ...
- The process or result of being gradually decomposed; A deterioration of condition; To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality; To rot, to go bad
- (decayed) Describing something that has, or is in process, of decaying
- The rotten part of the tooth.
- Destruction of tooth structure caused by toxins produced by bacteria.
- Disintegration of wood or other substance through the action of fungi.
- In ocean wave studies, the loss of energy from wind generated ocean waves after they have ceased to be acted on by the wind; this process is accompanied by an increase in length and a decrease in height of the wave.
- The lay term for carious lesions in a tooth; decomposition of tooth structure.
- A term used to describe how the theoretical value of an option 'erodes' or reduces with the passage of time. Time decay is specifically quantified by theta.
- The decomposition of wood by fungi.
- Exotic particles produced at accelerators are often very short-lived, and can transform into lighter, less exotic products, such as electrons and photons. This process of transformation is known as decay.
- Change of an element into a different element, usually with some other particle(s) and energy emitted.
- Decay is the antithesis of evolution. While the evolution process involves progressive changes, the changes are degenerative in the case of decay.
- vi. To undergo an implicit transformation to a value of slightly reduced type. Informally, arrays and functions tend to decay into pointers in C. See questions 6.3 and 1.34.
- an infectious disease process of the tooth that destroys the tooth structure and produces a cavity
- The transformation of a radioactive nuclide into a different nuclide by the spontaneous emission of radiation such as alpha, beta, or gamma rays, or by electron capture. The end product is a less energetic, more stable nucleus. Each decay process has a definite half-life.