attenuation

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  1. The act or process of making slender, thin, or lean; the state of being thin; emaciation; reduced thickness or proportions. Age had worn to the extreme of attenuation a face that must always have been hard-featured. R. T. Cooke, Somebody's Neighbors, p. 26.
  2. The act of making fine by comminution or attrition. The action of the air facilitates the attenuation of these rocks. Chaptal (trans.), 1791.
  3. The act or process of lessening in complexity or intensity; reduction of force, strength, or energy; specifically, in homeopathy, the reduction of the active principle of medicines to minute or infinitesimal doses.
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  • If there is no such source of attenuation, then there is no need for amplification. —  VideoHelp.com Forum
  • We further show that this noise attenuation is a property of a more generic regulatory motif, of which QS is an implementation. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • This attenuation was affected by intracellular resistivity but not membrane resistivity. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Glass has less attenuation, a fancy word for loss of a signal as it flows through the fiber. —  post-gazette.com - News
  • Such a subtraction operation enhances high-frequency spatial detail at the expense (attenuation) of low-frequency spatial information in the image.
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