Degradation may refer to:

Science

• Degradation (geology), lowering of a fluvial surface by erosion

• Degradation (telecommunications), of an electronic signal

• Biodegradation of organic substances by living organisms

• Environmental degradation in ecology

• Land degradation, a process in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by a combination of human-induced processes acting upon the land

• Polymer degradation, as plastics age

Other

• Elegant degradation, gradual rather than sudden

• Graceful degradation, in a fault-tolerant system

• Degradation (knighthood), revocation of knighthood

• Cashiering, whereby a military officer is dismissed for misconduct

• Reduction in rank, whereby a military officer is reduced to a lower rank for misconduct

• Degradation, the former ceremony of defrocking a disgraced priest

• Degradation, a song by the Violent Femmes, from Add It Up (1981–1993)

See also

• Dégradé, 2015 Palestinian film

• Humiliation, sometimes regarded as cognate with degradation

• Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment