rarefaction

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In untreated fish, one of the most striking signs of kidney decline was the gradual loss of capillaries, a process known as vascular rarefaction.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2026

The results from both of these null models were qualitatively consistent, so we only report findings using the equiprobable rows, fixed columns model, as it is more consistent with rarefaction of the observation tables.

From Nature • Oct. 31, 2017

Whether the heat transfer from compression to rarefaction is significant depends on how far apart they are—that is, it depends on wavelength.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

This is how noise-canceling headphones work—they produce a sound wave that resembles the wave responsible for the unwanted sound, but with the original phases of rarefaction and compression flipped.

From Scientific American • Dec. 12, 2013

After this will follow, for a like reason, the other phase of the wave, the rarefaction, which will swing the strip of air towards the tube.

From The Telephone An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as Involved in Its Action by Dolbear, A. E. (Amos Emerson)