Definitionen
1.AdjectiveHaving deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
2.AdjectiveHaving lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.
3.AdjectiveHaving lost functionality in general.
4.AdjectiveHaving multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range."The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons."
5.AdjectiveQualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class."A degenerate circle, having radius zero, consists of a single point."
6.AdjectiveHaving multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
7.AdjectiveHaving the same quantum energy level.
8.NounOne who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral or corrupt person."In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy."
9.VerbTo lose good or desirable qualities."His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital."
10.VerbTo cause to lose good or desirable qualities.