Degradation

Degradation may refer to:

• Degradation (geology), lowering of a fluvial surface by erosion
• Degradation (telecommunications), of an electronic signal
• Biodegradation of organic substances by living organisms
• Environmental degradation in ecology
• Land degradation, a process in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by a combination of human-induced processes acting upon the land
• Polymer degradation, as plastics age

• Elegant degradation, gradual rather than sudden
• Graceful degradation, in a fault-tolerant system
• Degradation (knighthood), revocation of knighthood
• Cashiering, whereby a military officer is dismissed for misconduct
• Reduction in rank, whereby a military officer is reduced to a lower rank for misconduct
• Degradation, the former ceremony of defrocking a disgraced priest
• Degradation, a song by the Violent Femmes, from Add It Up (1981–1993)

• Dégradé, 2015 Palestinian film
• Humiliation, sometimes regarded as cognate with degradation
• Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment