Degradation
In
chemistry and
biology,
degradation is the decomposition of a chemical compound by stages, with well-defined intermediate products. See also
attenuation and
biodegradation.
In
telecommunication, degradation, which may be categorized as either
"graceful" or
"catastrophic", has the following meanings: #The deterioration in quality, level, or standard of performance of a
functional unit. #In
communications, a condition in which one or more of the required performance parameters fall outside predetermined limits, resulting in a lower
quality of service.
There are several forms and causes of degradation in electric signals, both in the
time domain and in the physical domain, including
runt pulse,
spike,
jitter,
wander, swim,
drift,
glitch,
ringing,
crosstalk,
antenna effect, and
phase noise.
A
Degradation Ceremony is a ritual performed when cleric is deprived of office or a
Knight is stripped of the honour.
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Elegant degradation
