The implementation makes use of downsampling (decimation) and upsampling (expansion). The single greatest cause of the decimation of native populations was infectious disease. A system component that performs decimation is called a "decimator". This resulted in further decimation of the strength of the KNU. Russia forces a decimation of its own military to prevent mutinies. Warpath is one of the few mutants to retain his powers after the Decimation. It also supports an edge collapse operation that is useful in triangle decimation schemes. It is the single greatest factor in the decimation of bee colonies worldwide. They withdrew rather than try to come back from these seemingly endless generational decimation. Particularly shocking was the decimation of the Liberals in Quebec. It is sometimes called a boxcar filter, especially when followed by decimation. Then the decimation result is 4/8 = 0.5. Together they hold a meeting where Beast explains everything about how the Decimation occurred. The word "decimation" is derived from Latin meaning "removal of a tenth". "Fustuarium" in combination with decimation is relatively rare in the historical record.