ATTENUATION Definition & Meaning

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attenuation

[ uh-ten-yoo-ey-shuhn ]

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noun

the act of attenuating or the state of being attenuated.
the process by which a virus, bacterium, etc., changes under laboratory conditions to become harmless or less virulent.
Physics. a decrease in a property, as energy, per unit area of a wave or a beam of particles, occurring as the distance from the source increases as a result of absorption, scattering, spreading in three dimensions, etc.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of attenuation¹

1585–95; (< Middle French ) < Latin ��ٳٱ�Գ��پ�ō��- (stem of ��ٳٱ�Գ��پ�ō ). See attenuate, -ion

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Even sisters who share a close bond have usually passed through periods of attenuation.

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After all, tidal flats are important foraging areas for birds and contribute to wave attenuation.

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They investigated the carbon fluxes and their attenuation off the coast of Peru in an area with a millennia-old permanent oxygen minimum zone.

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"We experimentally determined the seismic wave attenuation characteristics, parameters for ascertaining the softness of the lithosphere and asthenosphere, under high temperature and pressure using our short-period oscillation generation technology," explains Prof. Yoshino.

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So the idea that there would be some attenuation of the correlation of Europeans and forms of democratic political institutions fits with our commonsense view of of the world.

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