degenerate
/dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹɪt/ adjective C1- Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
- Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.
- Having lost functionality in general.
- 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.
- Qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class. · A degenerate circle, having radius zero, consists of a single point.
- Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
- Having the same quantum energy level.
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Not to appear to disgrace his family, to degenerate from the popular qualities, or lose the influence of the Pemberley House, is a powerful motive.
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