Bible Dictionaries
Attenuation

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

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

(2):

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

(3):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Attenuation'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/attenuation.html. 1828.