attenuate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.

   “A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone.”

2. fiil To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.

   “Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there.”

3. fiil To become thin or fine; to grow less.
4. fiil To weaken.

   “We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagreness.”

5. fiil To rarefy.
6. fiil To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
7. fiil To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
8. fiil Of a beer, to become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.

   “A beer which does not attenuate to the expected level in fermentation will have more residual sugar and thus be sweeter and heavier-bodied.”

9. sıfat Slender, thin.
10. sıfat Rarefied, thin, refined.
11. sıfat Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.