>From Merriam-Webster dictionary One entry found for decimate. Top of Form <<...OLE_Obj...>> <<...OLE_Obj...>> <<...OLE_Obj...>> Bottom of Form Main Entry: dec·i·mate Pronunciation: 'de-s&-"mAt Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): -mat·ed; -mat·ing Etymology: Latin decimatus, past participle of decimare, from decimus tenth, from decem ten Date: 1660 1 : to select by lot and kill every tenth man of 2 : to exact a tax of 10 percent from <poor as a decimated Cavalier -- John Dryden> 3 a : to reduce drastically especially in number <cholera decimated the population> b : to destroy a large part of <firebombs decimated large sections of the city> - dec·i·ma·tion /"de-s&-'mA-sh&n/ noun Bottom of Form
I think you will find there is room for both uses Modestly & Illiterately, David -----Original Message----- From: Steve Greenbank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Re: Hello, thanks, and more. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Austin Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:56 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Re: Hello, thanks, and more. > One of the new features of the upcoming release of Polacolor > Insight is the > ability to use one of several > decimation >^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > techniques from nearest > neighbor(lowest quality) to bicubic(highest quality also longer). Your > choice would depend on use. > David >David, > >I'm very impressed! Someone actually used the correct term for this! Will >the documentation actually use this term? > >;-) Strictly speaking decimation means remove 1 in 10 hence the "dec" so it's definitely NOT the correct term even if some illiterate yank coined the phrase. ;-) Personally I use down-sample (and up-sample for the reverse).