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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Attenuating (0.02410 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Attenuating.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: attenuate
melaifkan, mengurangi, menguruskan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: attenuate
attenuate
adj : reduced in strength;
“the faded tones of an old recording”
[syn:
attenuated,
faded,
weakened]
attenuate
v 1: weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) [syn:
rarefy]
2: become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Attenuating
Attenuate
\At*ten"u*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Attenuated; p.
pr. & vb. n.
Attenuating.] [L. attenuatus, p. p. of
attenuare; ad + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See
Thin.]
1. To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical
action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of
starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.
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2. To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or
dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the
humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts.
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3. To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less
complex; to weaken.
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To undersell our rivals . . . has led the
manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in
the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. --I.
Taylor.
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We may reject and reject till we attenuate history
into sapless meagerness. --Sir F.
Palgrave.
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