Definition of "dedecoration" in English

noun

1. (obsolete) Disgrace; dishonour.

2. (rare) The removal of decoration.

   • He was advised that it clearly might; that these mummers had no right to lay their hands on this public ornament, whether for the purpose of decoration or dedecoration

3. (graph theory) Decimation (the elimination of points from a lattice); the inverse of decoration.

   • Dedecoration did not produce any advantages in observing the size of the displacement of dislocations.
   • Applying the star-triangle and dedecoration transformations[…]