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attenuation

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The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.

The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.

The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.

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attenuation in the volume of the sound Source: Internet

Above the cutoff frequency, attenuation increases rapidly. Source: Internet

Accounting for attenuation effects in ultrasound is important because a reduced signal amplitude can affect the quality of the image produced. Source: Internet

Adding shunt elements effectively reduces the source and load impedances, reducing the impedance ratio and increasing the off-state attenuation. Source: Internet

A lowpass filter is also included, with - 24dB per octave attenuation, and controls for cutoff frequency, resonance, and envelope modulation parameters. Source: Internet

Advantages and disadvantages Supporting arguments According to Mitschke, citation "The advantage of using a logarithmic measure is that in a transmission chain, there are many elements concatenated, and each has its own gain or attenuation. Source: Internet

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