decay (redirected from decayer)

decay

The reduction of strength of a signal or charge.

---

decay

1. decomposition, as of vegetable matter

2. rotten or decayed matter

3. Physics

a. See radioactive decay

b. a spontaneous transformation of an elementary particle into two or more different particles

c. of an excited atom or molecule, losing energy by the spontaneous emission of photons

4. Physics a gradual decrease of a stored charge, magnetic flux, current, etc., when the source of energy has been removed

5. Music the fading away of a note

---

decay - [Nuclear physics] An automatic conversion which is applied to most array-valued expressions in C; they "decay into" pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's first element. This term is not used in the official standard for the language.