Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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attenuation

noun

Forms attenuations

  1. noun A gradual diminishing of strength.
  2. noun (physics) A reduction in the level of some property with distance, especially the amplitude of a wave or the strength of a signal.
  3. noun (biology) A weakening in the virulence of a pathogen or other microorganism.
  4. noun (botany) The tapering of a leaf etc to a fine point.
  5. noun (engineering) A fabrication process in which a material is stretched out into a thin shape.
  6. noun (homeopathy) The reduction of the active principles of medicines to minute doses.
  7. noun (brewing) The proportion of sugar that is converted to ethanol by a yeast.

Synonyms

fading

Etymology

From Middle English attenuacioun, a borrowing from Latin attenuātiō (“a diminishing”). Equivalent to attenuate + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.
  2. noun The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.

Etymology [L. attenuatio: cf. F. atténuation.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “attenuation”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “attenuation” (best matches first).