decreasement
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editdecreasement (countable and uncountable, plural decreasements)
- (rare) The action or process of decreasing; a decrease; diminution.
- (rare) That by which something is decreased or diminished; a decrement.
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
- ... diminishing the velocity with decreasements like to the increasements acquired in the descent