noun – The act of diminishing, lessening, or reducing; a making smaller; a lowering in amount, value, dignity, estimation, etc.: as, the diminution of wealth, of importance, of power.
noun – The process of becoming less: as, the apparent diminution of a receding body; the diminution of the velocity of a projectile.
noun – In music, the repetition or imitation of a subject or theme in notes having one half or one quarter the duration of those first used: a favorite device in contrapuntal composition. See canon, counterpoint, and imitation.
noun – In law, an omission in the record of a case sent up from an inferior court to the court of review.
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In heraldry, differencing, especially that kind of differencing called
noun – In architecture, the gradual decrease in the diameter of the shaft of a column from the base to the capital.
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The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to
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