decimate
decimate
When you destroy a large proportion of something, it is often referred to as "decimation." The term originally described the Roman practice of killing one in every ten soldiers as a punishment for a unit's failure, but it has since come to mean widespread destruction or significant reduction of a group or population. In broader contexts, it can also imply severe damage or loss.
A sparse matrix is one which normally contains a large proportion of elements whose value is 0. There is no exact proportion at which a matrix becomes sparse.
A sentence including the word proportional? The quantities y and x are proportional if y/x = k, where k is the constant of proportionality.
direct proportion indirect proportion additive proportion partitive proportion
To destroy a large proportion of is called
Decimate
decimate
How about 'demolish'?
A large proportion of my daily activities are spent in school.
Vanilla pudding contains a large proportion of milk.
Cholesterol is classified as a lipid because it contains a large proportion of hydrophobic, nonpolar molecules such as fatty acids and sterol rings. These components make cholesterol insoluble in water but soluble in fat, which is a characteristic of lipids.
Locust
A large but unknown proportion.
If the ground shakes when they walk, they have a large figure proportion.
Scaling.
Fatty acid.