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Noun [English]

IPA: /dɪmɪˈnjuːʃən/ Forms: diminutions [plural]
Rhymes: -uːʃən Etymology: From Middle English diminucioun, from Anglo-Norman diminuciun, Old French diminucion, from Latin dīminūtiō. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|diminucioun}} Middle English diminucioun, {{der|en|xno|diminuciun}} Anglo-Norman diminuciun, {{der|en|fro|diminucion}} Old French diminucion, {{der|en|la|dīminūtiō}} Latin dīminūtiō Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} diminution (countable and uncountable, plural diminutions)
  1. A lessening, decrease or reduction. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (lessening, decrease): diminishment Translations (lessening, decrease or reduction): μείωσις (meíōsis) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), намаляване (namaljavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), намаление (namalenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), snížení [neuter] (Czech), Rückgang [masculine] (German), laghdú [masculine] (Irish), diminuzione [feminine] (Italian), tuaititanga (Maori), ero (Maori), diminuare [feminine] (Romanian), micșorare [feminine] (Romanian), scădere [feminine] (Romanian), disminución [feminine] (Spanish), förminskning [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-diminution-en-noun-sa8LwTQd Disambiguation of 'lessening, decrease': 94 1 4 Disambiguation of 'lessening, decrease or reduction': 98 0 2
  2. The act or process of making diminutive. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  3. (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Music
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: abatement, declension, decline, decrease, decrement, diminution, lessening, reduction, shrinking Related terms: diminish, diminished, diminuendo

Noun [French]

IPA: /di.mi.ny.sjɔ̃/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-diminution.wav Forms: diminutions [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Old French diminucion, borrowed from Latin dīminūtiōnem. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|diminucion|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French diminucion, {{inh+|fr|fro|diminucion}} Inherited from Old French diminucion, {{der|fr|la|dīminūtiō|dīminūtiōnem}} Latin dīminūtiōnem Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} diminution f (plural diminutions)
  1. diminution, abatement Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-diminution-fr-noun-MYQxyttj Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries

Noun [Interlingua]

Forms: diminutiones [plural]
Head templates: {{head|ia|nouns|||plural|diminutiones|f2accel-form=p|head=}} diminution (plural diminutiones), {{ia-noun|es}} diminution (plural diminutiones)
  1. decrease Related terms: diminuer
    Sense id: en-diminution-ia-noun-styXH0iV Categories (other): Interlingua entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1860, John Ruskin, chapter 1, in Modern Painters […], volume V, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part VII (Of Cloud Beauty), § 9, page 111:",
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          "ref": "1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170:",
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