degenerate
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
2. (of a person or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.Examples: "faint-hearted and degenerate king"; "But what can Cato do Againſt a World, a baſe degenerate World, That courts the Yoke, and bows the Neck to Cæſar?"; "As you grew more degenerate and base, I sent you millions of the croaking race"
3. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.Examples: "The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons."
4. (mathematics) Qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class.Examples: "A degenerate circle, having radius zero, consists of a single point."; "We now apply the geometrical construction explained in the appendix to the degenerate triangle ABC."
5. (mathematics, of an eigenvalue) Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
6. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.Examples: "His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital."; "Another bird quickly learned to imitate the song of a canary that was mated with it, but as the parrakeet improved in the performance the canary degenerated, and came at last to mingle the other bird's harsh chitterings with its own proper music."; "The haploid ovum is now called an ootid (Fig. 8—7). The second polar body degenerates, sometimes dividing before it dies."intransitive
2. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary