The difference between Degenerate and Well-behaved
When used as adjectives, degenerate means having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal, whereas well-behaved means having good manners and acting properly.
Degenerate is also noun with the meaning: one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
Degenerate is also verb with the meaning: to lose good or desirable qualities.
check bellow for the other definitions of Degenerate and Well-behaved
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Degenerate as an adjective (of qualities):
Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
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Degenerate as an adjective (of a human or system):
Having lost good or desirable qualities.
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Degenerate as an adjective (of an encoding or function):
Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
Examples:
"The [[genetic code]] is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several [[codon codons]]."
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Degenerate as an adjective (mathematics):
A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.
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Degenerate as an adjective (physics):
Having the same quantum energy level.
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Degenerate as a noun:
One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral person.
Examples:
"In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy."
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Degenerate as a verb (intransitive):
To lose good or desirable qualities.
Examples:
"His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital."
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Degenerate as a verb (transitive):
To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
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Well-behaved as an adjective (of a person or animal):
Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour
Examples:
"The boy is well-behaved and is seldom naughty."
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Well-behaved as an adjective (mathematics):
Having intuitive, easy to handle properties, especially: having a finite derivative of all orders at all points, and having no discontinuities.