atenuação

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin attenuātiō. 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)

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

Further reading
  • “atenuação” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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