decreasing
adjective
uk/dɪˈkriː.sɪŋ/us/dɪˈkriː.sɪŋ/mathematicsspecialized
In a decreasinglistofnumbersoramounts, eachnumberoramountis less than thepreviousone:
Thedemandforlabouris a decreasingfunctionof therealwagerate.
Records were given ascoreand would beoutputin decreasingscoreorder.
Opposite
nondecreasing
- In decreasingorderofmagnitudeofinfantmortality, thecurveshiftsthrough anearly"U"shapein someregionsto a "J"shapeinothers.
- Note that H0 is astrictlyconvex,monotonedecreasingfunctionwithminimum0 at c = 0.
- Weknowthat r is a decreasingfunctionof s.
- Thecurveshould go through thepoints, be decreasing (i.e. going down as pincreases), anditsshapeshouldinitiallybeconvexdown and thenconvexup.
Numerical relationships
- absolute maximum
- absolute minimum
- arithmetic progression
- cardinality
- differential
- differential equation
- disproportionate
- intersect
- inverse function
- inverse proportion
- linear
- linearly
- monotonic
- percent
- percentage
- prorated
- quantile
- ratio
- recursion
- trinomial