Word a Week | Week 23

Welcome to the 23rdinstallment of Word a Week. You can find the other Word a Week words here.

This week’s word is:

attenuation– (noun)1.the process by which a virus, bacterium, etc., changes under laboratory conditions to become harmless or less virulent. 2. (Physics.) a decrease in a property, as energy, per unit area of a wave or a beam of particles, occurring as the distance from the source increases as a result of absorption, scattering, spreading in three dimensions, etc.

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