decay

4)	an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying; "the corpse was in an advanced state of decay"; "the house had fallen into a serious state of decay and disrepair"

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5)	the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation

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disintegration radioactive_decay

decay [v]

1)	lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"

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decompose disintegrate

2)	fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay"

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crumble delapidate

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change decadent deteriorate corrode weather eat_at droop ruin break

3)	undergo decay or decomposition; "The body started to decay and needed to be cremated"

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change decompose go_bad putrefy deliquesce

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

[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.

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