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View synonyms for attenuation
attenuation
[ uh-ten-yoo-ey-shuhn ]
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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- subat·tenu·ation noun
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