decaying
present participle ofdecay
| 单词 | decaying |
| 释义 | decaying present participle ofdecay decay verb uk/dɪˈkeɪ/us/dɪˈkeɪ/B2[IorT] tobecomegraduallydamaged,worse, or less; tocausesomething to do this: Sugar makesyourteethdecay. Theroleof theextendedfamilyhas been decaying for sometime. Pollution has decayed thesurfaceof thestoneworkon thefrontof thecathedral. thesmellof decayingmeat [I]physicsspecialized If aradioactivesubstancedecays, itchangesto a differentform,producingradiation: Radioactiveuraniumdecaysintostableleadat aknownrate. As the actinium-225 decays, it gives offshort-lived,highlyenergizedalphaparticles.
Decaying and staying fresh
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Deteriorating and making worse Physical & chemical processes Physics: radiation & radioactivity Examplesofdecayingdecaying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The dispersion relation (4.4) admits both growing anddecayingmodes. From theCambridge English Corpus Moreover, thedecayinghouses intimate the finite nature of our existence. From theCambridge English Corpus It is noted that thedecayingprofiles remain nearly flat, as they would for an optically thin gas. From theCambridge English Corpus The soil is continually moist and covered with a thick layer of leaves anddecayinghumus. From theCambridge English Corpus Ideally there should be eight perceivable repetitions (decayingaway) which would be an octave transposition (8 6 3/4 tone) in all. From theCambridge English Corpus Regressing to models ofdecayingexponentials led to improved quality in the synthesis of several of the percussive tracks. From theCambridge English Corpus Such regions and waves cannot exist in isotropic plasmas, where the wave is a superposition only of oscillating or of exponentiallydecayingpartial waves. From theCambridge English Corpus These solutions therefore describe an exponentially growing ordecayingpopulation with an age-size distribution that keeps a constant shape. From theCambridge English Corpus At marginal instability, the real part of only one eigenvalue changes sign from negative (decayingdisturbance) t o positive (growing disturbance). From theCambridge English Corpus This means that compactly supported or quicklydecayingkernels lead to uncoupled spatial variables at larger distances. From theCambridge English Corpus Estimation of times from infection only involved thedecayingphase of the response, where differences may have been least marked. From theCambridge English Corpus Slug antigens were detectable indecayingslugs on both the soil and peat for remarkably long periods, with half-lives of 8.2 and 11.5 days respectively. From theCambridge English Corpus Whether a building is adecayingshell, an undisturbed time capsule or a home to squatters, its contents are always surprising. From theCambridge English Corpus Decayingwood is a sodium source for mountain gorillas. From theCambridge English Corpus From these figures, and recalling that the amplitude is presented logarithmically, adecayingmodulation of oscillationis noted. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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