ATTENUATION
\ɐtˌɛnjuːˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɐtˌɛnjuːˈeɪʃən], \ɐ_t_ˌɛ_n_j_uː_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ATTENUATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.
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The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.
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The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.
By Oddity Software
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The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.
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The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.
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The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Thinness, emaciation. A term used by the homoeopathists, in the sense of dilution or division of remedies into infinitesimal doses.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The state of being lean, or the process of losing flesh.
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In bacteriology, the process of weakening the virulence of pathogenic bacteria by various artificial methods, such as cultivation at an increased temperature, prolonged cultivation, drying, and by the addition of various chemicals. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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