decaying 的 3 个定义
- to become decomposed; rot: vegetation that was decaying.
- to decline in excellence, prosperity, health, etc.; deteriorate.
- Physics. to change spontaneously into one or more different nuclei in a process in which atomic particles, as alpha particles, are emitted from the nucleus, electrons are captured or lost, or fission takes place.
- to cause to decay or decompose; rot: The dampness of the climate decayed the books.
- decomposition; rot: Decay made the wood unsuitable for use.
- a gradual falling into an inferior condition; progressive decline: the decay of international relations; the decay of the Aztec civilizations.
- decline in or loss of strength, health, intellect, etc.: His mental decay is distressing.
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decaying 近义词
rotting
更多decaying例句
- Heat from the decay of radioactive materials, he suggested, sets this layer to a slow boil, creating large circulating currents within the molten rock that in turn slowly shift the continents about.
- The device would draw in ethylene, a gas emitted by plants that speeds up decay, and convert it into water and carbon dioxide, which help plants grow.
- The reality of the instrument’s decay had become fully apparent in November, after the National Science Foundation reviewed two recent cable breaks and decided to decommission the world-class radio telescope.
- I’d been studying radioactive decay in my courses, and Bill suggested we work together on calculating the lifetimes of new chemical elements, heavier than those in the known Periodic Table.
- Ten come from radioactive decay in the detector materials, and in this particular energy range about three come from the sun’s main fusion reaction.
- These new dark ages stem from a corrupt and decaying power system—a reflection of the state of affairs in the country itself.
- Their loved ones would visit, tending to their decaying relatives, even changing their clothing.
- A decaying statue of St. Lucia, patron saint of the blind, holds a platter with two eyes.
- Erica is the foil to the unstable, decaying Beth—a kind, virtuous, smooth-skinned girl next door.
- Of course, there are limits to building a candidacy on the decaying pillar of labor.
- This explanation seemed very likely, for here and there were stumps of trees and decaying chips.
- So far as we know, we can perceive no certain method by which the life of the slowly decaying suns can be restored.
- Cotgrave gives us: 'Faillance, f. a defection, failing, decaying.'
- Decaying nature could no longer be recruited by ordinary sources of strength and sustenance.
- The fir-trees died, and added to the great masses of decaying wood which now covered the damp ground.