Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device that attenuates an electrical signal.
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- noun physics Any
device thatattenuates asignal , but especially anelectronic device that reduces theamplitude of a signal
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an electrical device for attenuating the strength of an electrical signal
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Examples
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Snyder wrote a whole paper on snow as an "impact attenuator."
Ben Sherwood: Falling Man: How a New Yorker Plunges 39 Stories and Survives 2010
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Snyder wrote a whole paper on snow as an "impact attenuator."
Ben Sherwood: Falling Man: How a New Yorker Plunges 39 Stories and Survives 2010
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Snyder wrote a whole paper on snow as an "impact attenuator."
Ben Sherwood: Falling Man: How a New Yorker Plunges 39 Stories and Survives 2010
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Colored dissolved organic matter is now known to be the primary attenuator of underwater UV radiation in subarctic and high-arctic lakes [15]; Toolik Lake, Alaska [16]; arctic ponds [17]; and arctic coastal seas influenced by river inflows [18].
Ultraviolet radiation effects on freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic 2009
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The victim is an attenuator not an aerial, like a piece of meat in a microwave oven the frequency of which is chosen to be one well absorbed by water and fat.
Freshwater: A Bonsell in the offing? - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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The victim is an attenuator not an aerial, like a piece of meat in a microwave oven the frequency of which is chosen to be one well absorbed by water and fat.
Freshwater: A Bonsell in the offing? - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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I got pulled over once before 9/11 where the standard “search anything not actually combination locked” procedure turned up my 1 GHz precision stepped attenuator which I had considerable difficulty explaining.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Worn Circuit Boards as Art — in Airports: 2007
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The ideal would be to get past the point where it looks like a switch to where we have a variable attenuator.
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The entire device was no more than a yard long and was connected by cables to a current attenuator and a marine battery on the sled.
Deception Point Dan Brown 2001
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The entire device was no more than a yard long and was connected by cables to a current attenuator and a marine battery on the sled.
Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001
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