attenuate

IPA(Pronunciation)

/əˈtɛn.juˌeɪt/

Verb

transitive intransitive

(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.

Japanese Meaning

（他動詞）サイズ、力、価値、量、度合いなどを減少させる、または弱めること。 / （他動詞）物理的な変形、栄養不足、または腐敗などによって細くする、薄くすること。 / （自動詞）細くなる、薄くなる、または徐々に弱まること。

What is this buttons?

To attenuate the background noise, the engineer applied multiple filters during the recording session.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

背景ノイズを低減するために、エンジニアは録音中に複数のフィルターを適用した。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.

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Sense（2）

(transitive) To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.

Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there.

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Sense（3）

(intransitive) To become thin or fine; to grow less.

Sense（4）

(transitive) To weaken.

We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagreness.

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Sense（5）

(transitive) To rarefy.

It speedily became apparent that the entire strangeness of our circumstances and surroundings—great loss of weight, attenuated but highly oxygenated air, consequent exaggeration of the results of muscular effort, rapid development of weird plants from obscure spores, lurid sky—was exciting my companion unduly.

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