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Attenuate vs Arbiter - What's the difference?

attenuate | arbiter |

In lang=en terms the difference between attenuate and arbiter

is that attenuate is to rarefy while arbiter is to act as arbiter.

In electronics|lang=en terms the difference between attenuate and arbiter

is that attenuate is (electronics) to reduce the amplitude of an electrical signal while arbiter is (electronics) a component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.

As verbs the difference between attenuate and arbiter

is that attenuate is to reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree while arbiter is to act as arbiter.

As an adjective attenuate

is (botany|of leaves) gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.

As a noun arbiter is

a person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.

attenuate

English

Verb

(attenuat)
  • To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
  • * 1874 , , Far From the Madding Crowd , ch. 40:
    • A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone.
  • To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
  • * 1899 , , His New Mittens , ch. 4:
    • Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there.
  • * 1906 , , The Malefactor , ch. 1:
    • Lovell, wan and hollow-eyed, his arm in a sling, his once burly frame gaunt and attenuated with disease, nodded.
  • To weaken.
  • * Coleridge
    • The attention attenuates as its sphere contracts.
  • * Sir F. Palgrave
    • We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagreness.
  • To rarefy.
  • * 1901 , , The First Men in the Moon , ch. 23:
    • "It speedily became apparent that the entire strangeness of our circumstances and surroundings—great loss of weight, attenuated but highly oxygenated air, consequent exaggeration of the results of muscular effort, rapid development of weird plants from obscure spores, lurid sky—was exciting my companion unduly."
  • (medicine) To reduce the virulence of a bacteria or virus.
  • (electronics) To reduce the amplitude of an electrical signal.

    • Antonyms

    * amplify (electronics)

    Derived terms

    * attenuation * attenuable

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (botany, of leaves) Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.
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    arbiter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.
  • * 1931 , William Bennett Munro, The government of the United States, national, state, and local , page 495
    • In order to protect individual liberty there must be an arbiter between the governing powers and the governed.
  • (with of) A person or object having the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
    • Television and film, not ''Vogue and similar magazines, are the arbiters of fashion.
  • (electronics) A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.

    • Related terms

    () * arbitrable * arbitrage * arbitrary * arbitrate * arbitration * arbitrator * arbitress

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act as arbiter.
  • * 2003 , Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow, Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong: Why We Love France But Not the French , page 116
    • Worse, since there was no institution to arbiter disagreements between Parliament and the government, whenever Parliament voted against the government on the smallest issues, coalitions fragmented, and governments had to be recomposed.

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