ATTENUATION

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.

2.
n.

The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.

3.
n.

The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.