DEGENERATE
degenerate
Noun
- One is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
- You are a degenerate, boy. You're a disgrace to your ancestors.
Verb
- (of humans or systems) to lose good or desirable qualities;
- His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.
Adjective
- (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
- (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
- (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
- ''The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.
- A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.
- Having the same quantum energy level.
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