English Dictionary

attenuate

IPA（発音記号）

/əˈtɛn.juˌeɪt/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞

(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.

日本語の意味

（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。

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

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。

意味（1）

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

A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone.

意味（2）

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

Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

(transitive) To weaken.

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

意味（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.

意味（6）

(transitive, medicine) To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.

意味（7）

(transitive, electronics) To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.

意味（8）

(brewing) (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.

A beer which does not attenuate to the expected level in fermentation will have more residual sugar and thus be sweeter and heavier-bodied.

attenuates （ present singular third-person ）

attenuating （ participle present ）

attenuated （ participle past ）

attenuated （ past ）