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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.

restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

r, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.

With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.

Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.

ng of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension.

gives an armor plate a thick surface of extreme hardness supported by material gradually decreasing in hardness to the unaltered soft steel at the back.

ing to katabolism; as, katabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.

Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper. Dunglison.

Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.

Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.

b-1, when a2 + b2 = 1. -- Duodecimal unit, a unit in the scale of numbers increasing or decreasing by twelves. -- Fractional unit, the unit of a fraction; the reciprocal of the denominator; thus, unit of the fraction -- Integral unit, the unit of integral numbers, or 1. -- Physical unit, a value or magnitude conven…

velocity, velocity in which the space described varies from instant, either increasing or decreasing; -- in the former case called accelerated velocity, in the latter, retarded velocity; the acceleration or retardation itself being also either uniform or variable. -- Virtual velocity. See under Virtual.…

The act or process of waning, or decreasing. This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses. Bp. Hall.