Fading vs Attenuation - What's the difference?
fading | attenuation |
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-10-19, volume=409, issue=8858, magazine=(The Economist), author=Banyan
, title= The act of something that fades; gradual diminishment.
* 1854 , (Herman Melville), (Israel Potter)
(obsolete) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
A gradual diminishing in the strength of something.
(physics) A reduction in the level of some property with distance, especially the amplitude of a wave or the strength of a signal.
(biology) A weakening in the virulence of a pathogen or other microorganism.
(botany) The tapering of a leaf etc to a fine point.
(engineering) A fabrication process in which a material is stretched out into a thin shape.
As nouns the difference between fading and attenuation
is that fading is the act of something that fades; gradual diminishment while attenuation is a gradual diminishing in the strength of something.As a verb fading
is present participle of lang=en.fading
English
Verb
(head)The meaning of Sachin, passage=With fading eyesight and reactions, the runs have dried up. That Mr Tendulkar has nonetheless kept his place in the national [cricket] side is a more dismal exemplum: of the impunity enjoyed by all India’s rich and powerful.}}
Noun
(en noun)- Fading is a fine jig.
- delicate burthens of dildos and fadings
