attenuation

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From Middle English attenuacioun, a borrowing from Latin attenuātiō (“a diminishing”). Equivalent to attenuate + -ion.

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: verswakking — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Bulgarian: намаляване (namaljavane) — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Bulgarian: отслабване (otslabvane) — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Danish: svækkelse — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Finnish: vaimentuminen — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Finnish: heikkeneminen — gradual diminishing in the strength
• French: atténuation — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Georgian: მილევა (mileva) — gradual diminishing in the strength
• German: Verminderung — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Irish: caolú — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Italian: attenuazione — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Macedonian: намалу́вање (namalúvanje) — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Macedonian: ослабу́вање (oslabúvanje) — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Polish: tłumienie — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Romanian: atenuare — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Romanian: diminuare — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Russian: ослабле́ние (oslablénije) — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Spanish: atenuación — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Turkish: sönüm — gradual diminishing in the strength
• Bulgarian: затихване (zatihvane) — physics: reduction in the level of some property with distance
• Finnish: vaimentuminen — physics: reduction in the level of some property with distance
• Finnish: vaimennus — physics: reduction in the level of some property with distance
• Georgian: მილევა (mileva) — physics: reduction in the level of some property with distance
• German: Attenuation — physics: reduction in the level of some property with distance
• German: Dämpfung — physics: reduction in the level of some property with distance
• Macedonian: снижу́вање (snižúvanje) — physics: reduction in the level of some property with distance
• Macedonian: смалу́вање (smalúvanje) — physics: reduction in the level of some property with distance
• Portuguese: atenuação — physics: reduction in the level of some property with distance
• Russian: затуха́ние (zatuxánije) — physics: reduction in the level of some property with distance
• Russian: аттенюа́ция (attɛnjuácija) — physics: reduction in the level of some property with distance
• Finnish: heikkeneminen — biology: weakening, in the virulence
• German: Attenuierung — biology: weakening, in the virulence
• German: Abschwächung — biology: weakening, in the virulence
• Polish: atenuacja — biology: weakening, in the virulence
• Finnish: suippeneminen — botany: tapering to a fine point
• Finnish: vetäminen — engineering: fabrication process in which a material is stretched out
• Finnish: laimentaminen — homeopathy: reduction of the active principles of medicines
• Finnish: laimennus — homeopathy: reduction of the active principles of medicines