attenuation

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There are two main strategies: First is “attenuation” of the variety of environment, such that “that the system produces fewer possible states of the world to be anticipated or managed.”

From Salon

Even sisters who share a close bond have usually passed through periods of attenuation.

From Los Angeles Times

After all, tidal flats are important foraging areas for birds and contribute to wave attenuation.

From Science Daily

They investigated the carbon fluxes and their attenuation off the coast of Peru in an area with a millennia-old permanent oxygen minimum zone.

From Science Daily

"We experimentally determined the seismic wave attenuation characteristics, parameters for ascertaining the softness of the lithosphere and asthenosphere, under high temperature and pressure using our short-period oscillation generation technology," explains Prof. Yoshino.

From Science Daily