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- noun Plural form of
attenuation .
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Examples
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Disregarding (even disdainful of) this fact, the New Deal and subsequent Courts (with some more recent attenuations) have allowed Congress to regulate any activity if, in the aggregate, it merely affects commerce between states.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawsuits Against the Health Care Bill 2010
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In Romantic poetry, for instance, and its Victorian derivations and attenuations, anything nomadic is anticipated by the sporadic: those irregular phonemic rhythms entrained to signification in the first place — but not entirely enchained there.
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Those attenuations are normal, and any of us who've ever done any public speaking in different circumstances know that we adapt our language to the audience we're addressing.
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Disregarding (even disdainful of) this fact, the New Deal and subsequent Courts (with some more recent attenuations) have allowed Congress to regulate any activity if, in the aggregate, it merely affects commerce between states.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawsuits Against the Health Care Bill 2010
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There is a uniform physical stimulus which excites our two brains in those two different attenuations.
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But in the absence of those challenges, there were attenuations.
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He had made them — and by no fault of their own — momentarily pull it for him, the possibility, out of this vagueness; and must he not therefore take it now as they had had simply, with whatever thin attenuations, to give it to him?
The Ambassadors 2003
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None the less, the principle is important; the essential point here is that one is not going to mix two things, but rather to start off from a chemical system in equilibrium and to disturb this equilibrium, in this case by exposing the gas to the condensations and attenuations which constitute sound.
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Triturate the powders thoroughly for an hour or more upon each, and shake the dilution from fifty to one hundred times, more for the higher attenuations.
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The attenuations are mostly made at the decimal (1-10,) or centecimal
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