Degradation

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Degradation may refer to:

• Biodegradation, the processes by which organic substances are broken down by living organisms
• Cashiering or degradation ceremony, a ritual performed when cleric is deprived of office or a knight is stripped of the honour
• Chemical decomposition, the degradation of chemical compounds
• Corruption (philosophical concept)
• Defamation
• Degradation (geology)
• "Degradation", a song by the Violent Femmes, from Add It Up (1981–1993)
• Degradation (telecommunications), the loss of quality of an electronic signal
• Elegant degradation, in engineering, the gradual and manageable, rather than sudden or catastrophic, failure of a machine
• Environmental degradation, in ecology, damage to the ecosystem and loss of biodiversity
• Graceful degradation, in a fault-tolerant system
• Polymer degradation, usually undesirable, though sometimes deliberate, chemical and physical changes in plastics and similar materials as they age

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