Degeneracy

n. degradation, deterioration; decline, descent; deviance; state of having low moral values

Degeneracy (for the quality; degeneration for the process; adj. and v. degenerate), from the Latin de-generare "to depart from its kind or genus, to fall from its proper or ancestral quality" can refer to:In science and mathematics:Degeneracy (mathematics), a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, classDegenerate matter, a very highly compressed phase of matter where all or some of the electron orbits have collapsed from pressureDegenerate energy levels, different arrangements of a physical system which have the same energyMedical degeneration:Degenerative disease, disease which causes deterioration over timeDegeneration in social ideology:Degenerate art, a term adopted by the Nazi regime in Germany to describe virtually all modern artIn popular culture:"Degenerate" - song by blink-182 from the album Dude Ranch (album)
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Noun
1. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
(synonym) degeneration, decadence, decadency
(hypernym) abasement, degradation, abjection
2. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity"
(synonym) corruption, depravity
(hypernym) immorality

(a.)
The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.
  

(a.)
The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.
  

A feature of the genetic code that more than one nucleotide triplet codes for the same amino acid. The same applies to the termination signal which is encoded by three different stop codons.