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Diminished may
refer to:
Diminution in
music "
Diminished" (R.E.M. song), from the 1998
album Up...
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Diminishment is the
legal process by
which the
United States Congress can
reduce the size of an
Indian reservation. In 1984, the
United States Supreme...
- In economics,
diminishing returns are the
decrease in
marginal (incremental)
output of a
production process as the
amount of a
single factor of production...
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Diminished value or
diminution in
value are the
terms generally used to
describe the loss in a property's
market value after it was
damaged in an accident...
- In
criminal law,
diminished responsibility (or
diminished capacity) is a
potential defense by
excuse by
which defendants argue that
although they broke...
- In
classical music from
Western culture, a
diminished seventh (play) is an
interval produced by
narrowing a
minor seventh by a
chromatic semitone, and...
- In geometry, the
diminished rhombicosidodecahedron is one of the
Johnson solids (J76). It can be
constructed as a
rhombicosidodecahedron with one pentagonal...
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names that
avoid confusion with the
diminished scale and the half-
diminished seventh chord (minor seventh,
diminished fifth). It is the
sixth mode of the...
- In
music theory, a
diminished triad is a
triad consisting of two
minor thirds above the root. It is a
minor triad with a
lowered (flattened) fifth. When...
- The
diminished seventh chord is a four-note
chord (a
seventh chord)
composed of a root note,
together with a
minor third, a
diminished fifth, and a diminished...
