| 单词 | degenerate |
| 释义 | Word Frequency degenerateverb (dɪˈdʒɛnəˌreɪt) (intransitive) 1. to become degenerate 2. biology (of organisms or their parts) to become less specialized or functionally useless adjective (dɪˈdʒɛnərɪt) 3. having declined or deteriorated to a lower mental, moral, or physical level; debased; degraded; corrupt 4. physics a. (of the constituents of a system) having the same energy but different wave functions b. (of a semiconductor) containing a similar number of electrons in the conduction band to the number of electrons in the conduction band of metals c. (of a resonant device) having two or more modes of equal frequency 5. (of a code) containing symbols that represent more than one letter, figure, etc 6. (of a plant or animal) having undergone degeneration noun (dɪˈdʒɛnərɪt) 7. a degenerate person Derived forms degenerately (deˈgenerately) adverb degenerateness (deˈgenerateness) noun Word origin C15: from Latin dēgenerāre, from dēgener departing from its kind, ignoble, from de- + genus origin, race |
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