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Weakening in force or intensity
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attenuation
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attenuation \At*ten`u*a"tion\, n. [L. attenuatio: cf. F. att['e]nuation.] The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., of persons, "emaciation;" of diet, "reduction," from Latin attenuationem (nominative attenuatio ) "a lessening," noun of action from past participle stem of attenuare (see attenuate ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A gradual diminishing in the strength of something. 2 (context physics English) A reduction in the level of some property with distance, especially the amplitude of a wave or the strength of a signal. 3 (context biology English) A weakening in the ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In physics , attenuation (in some contexts also called extinction ) is the gradual loss in intensity of any kind of flux through a medium . For instance, dark glasses attenuate sunlight, lead attenuates X-rays , and water attenuates both light and sound. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. weakening in force or intensity; "attenuation in the volume of the sound" [syn: fading ] the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density
Usage examples of attenuation.
But, even in the right, there is the difference that the one set, worshipping the beauty of earth, look no further, while the others, those of recollection, venerate also the beauty of the other world while they, still, have no contempt for this in which they recognize, as it were, a last outgrowth, an attenuation of the higher.
Yet this is given only at the quadrillionth, or fourth degree of potency, and various substances are frequently administered at the decillionth or tenth degree, and occasionally at still higher attenuations with professed medicinal results.
Meanwhile too it became clear that the energies of the publicity boy were directed not to the further accrual of publicity opportunities but to their radical attenuation.
No wonder they believe in the efficacy of a similar attenuation of bryony or pulsatilla.
The attenuations of distance may easily deceive one's ears who listens from across the ocean and the mountains.
Disheartening, indeed, had been the various attenuations of coffee which had been imposed upon me in my brief career as a diner-out among these people.
Project an estimate, based on the attenuation expected given half-thicknesses of the core wall structure.