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I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
Ezra Cornell

Meaning of "deterioration" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DETERIORATION

deterioration  [dɪˌtɪərɪəˈreɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DETERIORATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Deterioration is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DETERIORATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Deterioration

Deterioration is a term now commonly used in health care, to describe worsening of a patient's condition. It is often used as a shortened form of 'deterioration not recognised or not acted upon'. Much work to reduce harm from deterioration has been undertaken by the National Patient Safety Agency. Deterioration, from Latin deteriorare "to make worse", from deterior "lower, worse", may refer to: ▪ Physical wear ▪ Degeneration It can also be used as a term for when a ZRC has worsened.

Definition of deterioration in the English dictionary

The definition of deterioration in the dictionary is the process of becoming worse or lower in quality, value, character, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DETERIORATION


acceleration
ækˌsɛləˈreɪʃən
collaboration
kəˌlæbəˈreɪʃən
configuration
kənˌfɪɡjʊˈreɪʃən
consideration
kənˌsɪdəˈreɪʃən
cooperation
kəʊˌɒpəˈreɪʃən
corporation
ˌkɔːpəˈreɪʃən
declaration
ˌdɛkləˈreɪʃən
decoration
ˌdɛkəˈreɪʃən
deliberation
dɪˌlɪbəˈreɪʃən
duration
djʊˈreɪʃən
expiration
ˌɛkspɪˈreɪʃən
exploration
ˌɛkspləˈreɪʃən
federation
ˌfɛdəˈreɪʃən
generation
ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃən
incorporation
ɪnˌkɔːpəˈreɪʃən
inspiration
ˌɪnspɪˈreɪʃən
operation
ˌɒpəˈreɪʃən
preparation
ˌprɛpəˈreɪʃən
restoration
ˌrɛstəˈreɪʃən
separation
ˌsɛpəˈreɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DETERIORATION

deter
deterge
detergence
detergency
detergent
deterger
deteriorate
deteriorative
deteriorism
deteriority
determent
determinability
determinable
determinably
determinacy
determinant
determinantal
determinate
determinately
determinateness

WORDS THAT END LIKE DETERIORATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
creation
destination
documentation
education
evaluation
excitation
formation
foundation
hesitation

Synonyms and antonyms of deterioration in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DETERIORATION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «deterioration» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of deterioration

Translation of «deterioration» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DETERIORATION

Find out the translation of deterioration to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of deterioration from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «deterioration» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

恶化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

deterioro
570 millions of speakers

English

deterioration
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गिरावट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تدهور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ухудшение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

deterioração
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

détérioration
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kemerosotan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verschlechterung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

悪化
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

열화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rusak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

suy thoái
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மோசமடைவது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बिघाड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bozulma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

deterioramento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pogorszenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

погіршення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

deteriorare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επιδείνωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

agteruitgang
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

försämring
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forverring
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of deterioration

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DETERIORATION»

The term «deterioration» is very widely used and occupies the 21.788 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DETERIORATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «deterioration» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «deterioration» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about deterioration

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10 QUOTES WITH «DETERIORATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word deterioration.
1
Xavier Becerra
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
2
Charles Horton Cooley
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
3
Ezra Cornell
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
4
Taylor Dane
The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.
5
Laurie Graham
With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration.
6
Richard Lamm
It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition.
7
Kamisese Mara
I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.
8
Jeanne Moreau
All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
9
William Odom
I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.
10
Tim Robbins
Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DETERIORATION»

Discover the use of deterioration in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to deterioration and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Guide to the Deterioration and Failure of Building Materials
This book will be an invaluable resource for civil engineers, manufacturers of building materials and students studying the built environment.
R. O. Heckroodt, 2002
2
Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on ...
The conservation of historic monuments, sites and structures constitutes an inter-professional discipline co-ordinating a range of aesthetic historic, scientific and technical methods.
V. Fassina, 2000
3
Defects and Deterioration in Buildings: A Practical Guide to ...
Defects and deterioration in masonry can generally be attributedto failure toobserve these design criteria properly. A warningis necessary atthis stage in relation tohistoric buildings.Severe masonry deterioration isoftenobserved and reported, ...
Barry Richardson, 2002
4
Managing Water Well Deterioration: IAH International ...
Scenarios have been developed to illustrate common causes of water well fouling. A feature of the book is the treatment of both corrossion and fouling issues in depth.
Robert McLaughlan, 2002
5
Environmental Deterioration of Materials
It features information on the methods of deterioration, as well as general information on the economic impact of the damaging processes, and offers some suggested fundamental protection techniques for buildings, industrial and agricultural ...
A. Moncmanová, 2007
6
Building Pathology: Deterioration, Diagnostics, and Intervention
Throughout the book, photographs and line drawings graphically illustrate the concepts and building problems discussed in the text.
Samuel Y. Harris, 2001
7
Trail deterioration and maintenance
Equipment Development Center (Missoula, Mont.) Steep trails cause bikes to spin out and force horses to dig in with their hooves. These trails are hazardous and tiring, and are continually eroding. 65 i:jjM||M| &".„- Reroute steep sections when ...
Equipment Development Center (Missoula, Mont.), 1980
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Food Science
All foods undergo varying degrees of deterioration during storage. Deterioration may include losses in organoleptic desirability, nutritional value, safety, and aesthetic appeal. Foods may change in color, texture, flavor, or another quality ...
Norman N. Potter, Joseph H. Hotchkiss, 1998
9
Deterioration of Book and Record Papers
T. D. Jarrell, James McKenzie Hankins, Fletcher Pearre Veitch. The results on book-paper samples 7-A, 7-B, and 7-C are significant. These three books are copies of the same edition and were printed on the same lot of all-rag antique book ...
T. D. Jarrell, James McKenzie Hankins, Fletcher Pearre Veitch, 1936
10
Shelf Life Evaluation of Foods
In this chapter, certain major modes of food deterioration will be examined. These modes of deterioration will be expressed mathematically as rate equations. Reaction kinetics and various models that are used in practice to express quality  ...
C.M.D. Man, Adrian A. Jones, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DETERIORATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term deterioration is used in the context of the following news items.
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US trade deficit for May showed a small deterioration from April
US trade for May showed a small deterioration in the deficit from April, but beat expectations at -$41.87bn vs. est. -$42.70bn. Details show real ... «EconoTimes, Jul 15»
2
Officials believe deck collapse in Emerald Isle, NC, was due to …
Officials believe deck collapse in Emerald Isle, NC, was due to deterioration of fasteners, nails; 2 of 24 injured in critical condition - @NBCNews. «BreakingNews.com, Jul 15»
3
EPA Takes Action to Provide for Rescission of Prevention of …
On May 7, 2015, EPA issued a direct final rule to amend the permit rescission provisions in the federal Prevention of Significant Deterioration ... «The National Law Review, Jul 15»
4
Study: Peripheral nerve stimulation therapy can reverse SCI …
A new study in Journal of Neurophysiology reports that peripheral nerve stimulation therapy can reverse SCI-associated nerve deterioration, ... «News-Medical.net, Jul 15»
5
Further Deterioration For Malaysia Manufacturing Sector - Nikkei
The manufacturing sector in Malaysia continued to contract in June, the latest Nikkei Malaysia Manufacturing PMI showed on Wednesday, with ... «RTT News, Jun 15»
6
Brazil's prison system faces 'profound deterioration' if youth crime …
Detainees pose in their cell in the Desembargador Raimundo Vidal Pessoa penitentiary in Manaus, Brazil. Inmates have constructed makeshift ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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Brazil's prison system may soon face 'profound deterioration'
Inmates sit at the windows of their jail cells at Guarulhos prison in Sao Paulo, ReutersInmates sit at the windows of their jail cells at Guarulhos ... «Business Insider, Jun 15»
8
Fitch: Fiscal Deterioration Will Raise Zambia's Debt Burden
(The following statement was released by the rating agency) LONDON, June 29 (Fitch) The increasingly large budget gap in Zambia may prove ... «Reuters, Jun 15»
9
Fitch Fiscal Deterioration Will Raise Zambias Debt Burden
The increasingly large budget gap in Zambia may prove costly to finance, Fitch Ratings says. Domestic financing conditions are constrained, ... «EconoTimes, Jun 15»
10
Concerns about deterioration of Bulgarian media environment …
Concerns persist about deterioration of the media environment in Bulgaria because of corporate and political pressure that, combined with the ... «The Sofia Globe, Jun 15»

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