If you say that someone or something degenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous. Inactivity can make your joints stiff, and the bones may begin to degenerate a very serious humanitarian crisis which could degenerate into a catastrophe. = deteriorate + degeneration de·gen·era·tion various forms of physical and mental degeneration
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
Describes an equilibrium assemblage whose variance is lower than expected from the number of phases and components because some other restriction is active in the phase rule Examples include coincidences, singular points, collinear phases, and equilibria in which some or all phases are restricted to a bounding subsystem
A polyhedron is degenerate when some features align exactly It may be vertex-degenerate, edge-degenerate, or face-degenerate A true polyhedron is normally defined as having exactly two faces meeting at each edge There would be more uniform polyhedra if this restriction was lifted, and these can often also be thought of as compounds of other uniform polyhedra Usually in these cases there are four faces meeting at some edges, so there's more than one way to think of which face is attached to which face
To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate
disapproval If you describe a person or their behaviour as degenerate, you disapprove of them because you think they have low standards of behaviour or morality. a group of degenerate computer hackers
unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
disapproval If you refer to someone as a degenerate, you disapprove of them because you think they have low standards of behaviour or morality. to become worse degenerate into. morally unacceptable