| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In a degenerate manner; unworthily.[Websters]
2. In a vicious or defective manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a perverse, corrupt, putrid or bad manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a decadent or effete manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a depraved or debauched manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a dissolute, wanton or lecherous manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a rotten, unsound or rancid manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a foul or lewd manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Infrequently used adverbial inflection of the adjective degenerate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (degenerate) | 1. Unrestrained by convention or morality.[Wordnet]. 2. Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.[Websters]. 3. Being corrupt, rotten, putrid or unsound.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being vicious, wicked, evil, bad or malignant.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being perverse or perverted.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being decadent or effete.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being debauched, profligate or dissolute.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being immoral or wanton.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being contemptible, abject or despicable.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adjective base of the adverb degenerately.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DEGENERATELY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DEGENERATELY
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adverb] In a degenerate or base manner. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
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Common Expressions: degenerate
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Degenerate dwarf | A Degenerate dwarf is a type of star, an alternative name for what is commonly called a White dwarf (see this reference for a more complete article). (references) | ||
| Degenerate energy level | In physics two or more physical states are said to be degenerate if they are both at the same energy level; the energy level is said to be degenerate if it contains two or more such states. The number of occupation states available at a particular energy level is called the level's degeneracy. (references) | ||
| Degenerate form | Implies that x = 0. (references) | ||
| Degenerate music | Degenerate music was a label applied by the Nazi government in Germany to certain forms of music that it considered to be harmful or decadent. The Nazi government's concern for degenerate music was a part of its larger and more well-known interest in degenerate art. In both cases, the government attempted to isolate, discredit, discourage, or ban the works. (references) | ||
| Degenerate orbitals | Degenerate Orbitals for electrons in an atomic subshell are orbitals at identical energy levels (by definition). These are important in Physical Chemistry because they effect the ways electrons fill atoms (see Hund's rule). (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: degenerate
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Degenerate code | Geology | The fact that in most cases in the genetic code used by all life on Earth, one particular amino acid is specified by more than one three-base combination of the four nitrogenous bases (called a codon). There are enough different codons to specify 64 different amino acids, but there are in actuality only 20 amino acids (and three stop codons) used in the making of proteins. (references) | |
| Degenerate Configuration | Physics | Magnetic field configuration in which the magnetic lines of force close exactly on themselves after passing around the configuration a finite number of times. (references) | |
| Degenerate distribution | Statistics | A distribution consisting of a mass concentrated at a single point x= k. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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