Definizione monolingua

degenerate

degenerate (third-person singular simple present degenerates, present participle degenerating, simple past and past participle degenerated)

1. (intransitive) (of humans or systems) to lose good or desirable qualities;

   His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.

degenerate (plural degenerates)

1. One is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.

   You are a degenerate, boy. Youre a disgrace to your ancestors.

degenerate (comparative more degenerate, superlative most degenerate)

1. (of qualities) having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to an undesirable and typically abnormal
2. (of a human or system) having lost good or desirable qualities
3. (of an encoding or function) having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range

   The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.

4. (mathematics) a degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.
5. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level

Definizione dizionario degenerate

	degenerare
	to lose good or desirable qualities

degenerativo

degenerato

degenere

Altri significati:

(of an encoding or function) having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range

having lost good or desirable qualities

(of a human or system) having lost good or desirable qualities

having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal

(intransitive) (of humans or systems) to lose good or desirable qualities;

(mathematics) a degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.

(of qualities) having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to an undesirable and typically abnormal

One is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.