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

Our analyses were carried out using a modest sequencing depth of 5,000 observations per sample after Deblur and rarefaction.

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

These winds are caused by the rarefaction of the air over large districts of country situated on the polar edge, or near the polar edge, of the trade-winds.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden