Degeneracy

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The word degeneracy has more than one meaning:

In general, "degeneracy" means "reverting to an earlier, simpler, state"
The term "moral degeneracy" is sometimes used by speakers commenting on the morality (or lack thereof) of a society: this usage has its roots in the concept of atavism.
Modernist art is sometimes described as "degenerate art".
In biology, see devolution.
In mathematics, a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class. See mathematical degeneracy.
In physics, these meanings apply:
* The mathematical meaning.
* Degenerate matter is a very highly compressed phase of matter where all or some of the electron orbits have collapsed from pressure.
* Degenerate energy levels are different arrangements of the system which have the same energy.
Degenerate (humans), inferior human

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