noun The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
noun The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
noun A tithe or the act of tithing.
noun The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence. A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling
noun A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling