I can’t speak for the rest of the article but for better of for worse “decay” is the standard word used for what happens to arrays as they are passed around as

I can’t speak for the rest of the article but for better of for worse “decay” is the standard word used for what happens to arrays as they are passed around as pointers. See for instance https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/decay https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/decay.