Attenuation (disambiguation)
# Attenuation (disambiguation)

Attenuation is the gradual loss in intensity of any kind of flux through a medium, including:

* Acoustic attenuation, the loss of sound energy in a viscous medium
* Anelastic attenuation factor, a way to describe attenuation of seismic energy in the Earth

Attenuation (or verb attenuate) may also refer to:

* Attenuation (botany)
* Attenuation (brewing), the percent of sugar converted to alcohol and carbon dioxide by the yeast in brewing
* Attenuation coefficient, a basic quantity used in calculations of the penetration of materials by quantum particles or other energy beams
* Mass attenuation coefficient, a measurement of how strongly a chemical species or substance absorbs or scatters light at a given wavelength, per unit mass
* Regression attenuation or Regression dilution, a cause of statistical bias
* The process of producing an attenuated vaccine by reducing the virulence of a pathogen
* Attenuation constant, the real part of the propagation constant
* Attenuator (genetics), form of regulation in prokaryotic cells.
