Degradation
Degradation or degradation ( " reduce " from Latin degrado to gradus " step " ) generally refers to the reduction of a value or a property:
- Degradation (Rank), the reduction of one rank in a hierarchy ( military, civil service law, sociology )
Chemistry
- Decomposition (chemistry), the decomposition of compounds or fabric degradation
- Loss of material properties, for example by pyrolysis
- Loss of function of proteins by proteolysis (enzymatic cleavage)
Natural history
- Land degradation, deterioration of soil properties
- Forest degradation, biodiversity loss and thinning in forests, development of natural forest to secondary forest or economic
- In geology, the mixing assorted size distribution of rock fragments, see grading
Technology
- Graceful degradation to respond to the property of a computer system, safely and appropriately to unexpected incoming events
- The reduction of the image or video quality by machining processes that extract the image information, such as lossy data compression
- In data technology, the damage of a data signal, bit error rate, see
- In solar technology, the aging behavior of solar cells, see Solar Module - degradation
- Gradual reduction in the capacity of rechargeable batteries by use or storage
- Disambiguation