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
This layer appears to glide over a weaker region below called the asthenosphere, characterized by high seismic attenuation and low shear wave velocity.
From Science Daily
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