To degenerate, essentially, is to get worse in a certain sense. An example sentence would be: Unfortunately, after chemotherapy, her health began to degenerate.

Semiconductors with n<<Nc and p<<Nv are non-degenerate s/c

Semiconductors with n>>Nc and p>>Nv are degenerate s/c

Jazz music was offensive to Nazi ideology because it was often performed by Blacks and a number of Jewish musicians. They called it "Negro music" or "degenerate music"-coined in parallel to "entartete Kunst" (degenerate art). Moreover, song texts defied Nazi ideology, going as far as to promote sexual permissiveness or free love.

However many anti-nazi teenagers rebelled, and had whacky hairstlyes, and listened to, and danced to, Jazz Music.

they were called the Swing Kids

Degenerate - album - was created on 2010-05-24.