Or when tradesmen tried to use their wealth to gain political power, which could lead to the degenerate form of government known as oligarchy.

A degenerate form of the above - only the da included.

The dual ring in its most degenerate form simply collapses into a single device.

After all, isn't a static interface element simply the degenerate form of an animation?

In Frye's view, irony is a late and somewhat degenerate form.

Typically they were depicted with relatively advanced groups at the top, and degenerate forms towards the bottom.

The land creatures we discovered are degenerate forms of titans, rather than a distinctly different species.

He encounters mutated creatures called "the beast things," which are possibly a degenerate form of humans.

A circle is a degenerate form of an ellipse, namely one with eccentricity 0.

A segment is a degenerate form of a rectangle, if this has a side of length 0.