(programming) The conversion of an array variable into a pointer to its first element.

(dentistry) Dental caries.

A decrease where the rate of decrease is proportional to the amount remaining.

plural of exponential decay

(finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.

Radioactive decay.

(biochemistry) A cellular pathway for the rapid destruction of damaged or mutant messenger RNAs lacking a stop codon in the proper reading frame.

(biochemistry) A cellular pathway for the rapid destruction of messenger RNAs with premature stop codons resulting from nonsense mutations or frameshifts.

The state or quality of being decayed.

(archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of decay