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