degenerate
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
- Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.
- Having lost functionality in general.
- Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
- Qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class.
- Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
- Having the same quantum energy level.
Noun
- One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral or corrupt person.
Verb
- To lose good or desirable qualities.
- To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
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