This means that moving, scaling, rotating, filling etc. doesn't degrade the quality of a drawing.

Over time, such intensive farming threatens to degrade the quality of topsoil and damage local waterways and ecosystems.

The continued growth of industry and cities throughout the 20th century, combined with little effort towards preserving the environment, continued to degrade the quality of the water in the river.

Densification degrades the quality of existing urban space and places greater burdens on an already creaking infrastructure.

This means that, as greenhouse gases would no longer be considered to degrade the quality of air, sources would not be required to ascertain a permit to emit.