This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

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n. A gradual diminishing in the strength of something.

n. A reduction in the level of some property with distance, especially the amplitude of a wave or the strength of a signal.

n. A weakening in the virulence of a pathogen or other microorganism.

n. The tapering of a leaf etc to a fine point.

n. A fabrication process in which a material is stretched out into a thin shape.

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

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

n. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence.

n. The act or process of making slender, thin, or lean; the state of being thin; emaciation; reduced thickness or proportions.

n. The act of making fine by comminution or attrition.

n. The act or process of lessening in complexity or intensity; reduction of force, strength, or energy; specifically, in homeopathy, the reduction of the active principle of medicines to minute or infinitesimal doses.

n. The act of making thin or thinner, as a fluid, or the state of being thin or thinned; diminution of density or viscidity: as, the attenuation of the humors; specifically, in brewing and distilling, the thinning or clarifying of saccharine worts by the conversion of the sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.

n. In electricity: The decrease of telephonic currents with increasing distance, due to the absorption of current by the electrostatic capacity of the telephone line.

n. More generally, the decrease of electrical effects with increasing distance.

n. the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density

n. weakening in force or intensity

"Jobs kept using the word attenuation which is incorrect because with detuning the antenna comes pattern changes as the system interacts with human limbs now connected to it."

weakness    weakening   

attenuate    thin    tenuous   

emaciation   

crosstalk    impedance    amplification    shrinkage    bandwidth    amplitude    polarization    linearity    beamwidth    distortion