Attenuation (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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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. 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.
noun
  1. the act of attenuating or the state of being attenuated
  2. the loss of energy suffered by radiation as it passes through matter, esp as a result of absorption or scattering
Attenuation (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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