What does decreasing mean?

Definitions for decreasing
de·creas·ing

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word decreasing.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. decreasingadjective

    becoming less or smaller

  2. decreasingadjective

    music

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  1. decreasing

    Decreasing refers to the process or state of becoming less, smaller, lower, or fewer in quantity, size, intensity, value, rate, level, or any other measurable entity. It often applies to a downward trend or reduction over a period of time.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Decreasing

    of Decrease

  2. Decreasingadjective

    becoming less and less; diminishing

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of decreasing in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of decreasing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of decreasing in a Sentence

  1. Justin Baldwin:

    As temperatures warm, body sizes are decreasing, but larger-brained species are declining less strongly than small-brained species.

  2. Meg Doherty:

    Even among high income countries, funding for sexual health globally is decreasing or remains unfunded.

  3. Christine Laine:

    To be honest with our patients and the public, we shouldn't be making recommendations that sound like they're based on solid evidence, there may be lots of reasons to decrease meat in your diet, but if you're decreasing it to improve your health, we don't have a lot of strong evidence to support that.

  4. Sun Shuopeng:

    In the city of Wuhan after one month since the adoption of the lockdown policy, we see a decreasing trend from the peak of the disease, here in Milan, the hardest hit area by Covid-19, there isn't a very strict lockdown : public transportation is still working and people are still moving around, you're still having dinners and parties in the hotels and you're not wearing masks. We need every citizen to be involved in the fight of Covid-19 and follow this policy.

  5. Patrick Bordnick:

    We want to know if decreasing craving in a lab modifies heroin use in the real world.

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