attenuation

Example Sentences

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The program was an area of growth in a year of attenuation.

From Seattle Times

Laser signals, while extremely precise and used regularly to great effect to designate enemy targets, can at times suffer what’s called “beam attenuation” due to smoke, fog or other weather impediments.

From Fox News

Lasers operate in space with much lower risk of beam attenuation when compared with laser weapons fired within the earth’s atmosphere.

From Fox News

His rationale is clear and simple — “We have to stand up to evil,” he says — and from there, “A Hidden Life” proceeds to show, with painful attenuation, the consequences of such a moral stand.

From Los Angeles Times

Doolan also warns that gene-edited vaccines could “revert to virulence”, shaking off the shackles of attenuation and causing malaria rather than preventing it.

From Nature