Meaning of attenuate in English

(Definition of attenuate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of attenuate

attenuate
Intuitively, the positive savings effect associated with the reduction in generational turnover attenuates the fall in aggregate savings induced by the lower rate of interest.
Of these, the region of the country may attenuate differences between months.
More or less at birth, if the fetal exposure to attenuated (but prosodically informative) speech signals is set aside.
The timbre will also vary over time if the magnitude response is not flat, since the harmonics of the signal will attenuate at different rates.
Monetary incentives do not completely "crowd out" the subject's motive to please, but they are likely to attenuate this motive considerably.
This is a conservative approach that slightly attenuates the associations between parent psychopathology and offspring outcomes.
This would aggravate competition for food between livestock and wildlife and potentially attenuate the conservation benefits.
Thus, the effects reported might be strengthened or attenuated if child counts were used for all variables.
They could be attenuated using a greater number of connecting points.
The use of an abbreviated assessment (with the expected increase in measurement error and reduced variance) likely attenuated the associations observed in the present study.
Measurement errors in the starting and the minimum rates generally attenuate the corresponding estimated coefficients.
Because this radial motion involves dissipation, some energy is removed from the waves, so that they are attenuated as they travel in the bubbly liquid.
This investigation clearly identified the problem so that steps to attenuate it could be taken the following summer.
This configuration colours the input sound, as it boosts certain frequencies and attenuates others, in a shape resembling the teeth of a comb.
On the other hand, scoring artefacts may be attenuated by pooling alleles of similar size.
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Translations of attenuate

in Chinese (Traditional)
使減少, 使減弱, 使降低…
in Chinese (Simplified)
使减少, 使减弱, 使降低…
in Spanish
atenuar…
in Portuguese
atenuar…
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