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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>decay</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="DEC-Wars.html" title="DEC Wars"/><link rel="next" href="deckle.html" title="deckle"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">decay</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DEC-Wars.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="deckle.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="decay"/><dt xmlns="" id="decay"><b>decay</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,vi</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from nuclear physics] An automatic conversion which is applied to
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most array-valued expressions in <a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a>; they
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‘decay into’ pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's
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first element. This term is borderline techspeak, but is not used in the
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