present participle of attenuate

(transitive) To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree. / (transitive) To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying. / (intransitive) To become thin or fine; to grow less.

(botany, of leaves) Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attenuate

Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation. / (botany) Long and tapering (especially of leaves)

simple past tense and past participle of attenuate

plural of attenuation

A gradual diminishing of strength. / (physics) A reduction in the level of some property with distance, especially the amplitude of a wave or the strength of a signal.

(physics) absorbance plus losses due to scattering and luminescence

(physics) Any device that attenuates a signal, but especially an electronic device that reduces the amplitude of a signal