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- Dictionaryattenuation/ətɛnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
noun
- 1. the reduction of the force, effect, or value of something: "human security required the attenuation of a wide range of threats to people"
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Attenuation is the act or process of lessening something, such as sound, force, or severity. Learn more about the word history, examples, and legal and medical meanings of attenuation.
Attenuation is the process of making something less or weaker, or longer and thinner. Learn how to use this word in different contexts, such as noise, inflammation, sculpture, and signal.
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.
In physics, attenuation (in some contexts, extinction) is the gradual loss of flux intensity through a medium. For instance, dark glasses attenuate sunlight, lead attenuates X-rays, and water and air attenuate both light and sound at variable attenuation rates.
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the process of making something less or weaker: The airport has undertaken a noise attenuation program. The drug plays a role in the attenuation of inflammation. the process or fact of making something longer and thinner: the graceful attenuation of a Modigliani sculpture. See. attenuate.
Attenuate means to make thin, weak, or less in amount, force, or value. It can also mean to reduce the severity or virulence of a disease or pathogen. See synonyms, examples, and word history of attenuate.
Attenuate definition: to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value. See examples of ATTENUATE used in a sentence.
