Definitions for attenuation

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attenuation at·ten·u·a·tion

Spelling: [uh-ten-yoo-ey-shuh n]

IPA: /əˌtɛn yuˈeɪ ʃən/

Attenuation is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 306 anagrams from letters in attenuation (aaeinnotttu).

Definitions for attenuation

noun

1. the act of attenuating or the state of being attenuated.
2. the process by which a virus, bacterium, etc., changes under laboratory conditions to become harmless or less virulent.
3. 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.

Origin of attenuation

1585-95; (Middle French) Latin attenuātiōn- (stem of attenuātiō). See attenuate, -ion

Examples for attenuation

The secret of attenuation had thus become an open one to Pasteur.

It is to be given at the first attenuation three times daily in half gr.

She quite lacks the refinement, attenuation and imponderability you have achieved.

Between one third and one fourth is the usual degree of attenuation.

It was this form of attenuation that was brought into play in the case of Jenner.

The rapidity of the action diminished with the attenuation of the vapour.

There is no growth in the idea of god, there is only an attenuation.

In spite of the pallor and attenuation, the face had a rare charm.

The only attenuation she could think of was after a minute to add: "But they didn't come up."

Peter was pinguid, plump, and plethoric—she was thin to attenuation.