atenuação

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin attenuātiōnem. By surface analysis, atenuar +‎ -ção.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.te.nu.aˈsɐ̃w̃/ [a.te.nʊ.aˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃], (faster pronunciation) /a.te.nwaˈsɐ̃w̃/ [a.te.nwaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.tɨ.nwɐˈsɐ̃w̃/

Hyphenation: a‧te‧nu‧a‧ção

Noun

atenuação f (plural atenuações)

attenuation (gradual diminishing in the strength)
(physics) attenuation (a reduction in the level of some property with distance)

Related terms

ténue

Further reading

“atenuação” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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