dec

<programming>

/dek/ decrement, decrease by one. Especially used by assembly language programmers, as many assembly languages have a "dec" mnemonic.

Opposite: inc.

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debugging by printf ♦ debugging tool ♦ DEC ♦ dec ♦ DEC Alpha ♦ decay ♦ DECdesign

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