Well, my Canadian dictionary states the first definition as: "destroy much of, kill a large part of"
The second and third definitions both refer to one-tenth (destroy one-tenth, or execute one of every ten men). Pretty violent term for describing removal of some pixels, if you ask me... I too use downsample and upsample, and I think they both are easier to understand. Art Steve Greenbank wrote: > ----- 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). >