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What is an attenuation?

What is an attenuation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A gradual diminishing of strength.
  2. (physics) A reduction in the level of some property with distance, especially the amplitude of a wave or the strength of a signal.
  3. (biology) A weakening in the virulence of a pathogen or other microorganism.
  4. (botany) The tapering of a leaf etc to a fine point.
  5. (engineering) A fabrication process in which a material is stretched out into a thin shape.
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It is possible that it is not age itself that causes the attenuation of creativity.
Chasseriau's attenuation of his figures certainly borrows a Mannerist aesthetic.
The heavier cognitive load required to create these relationships may have resulted in a certain attenuation in motivation.
With the hilly terrain between the two antennas, the signal would encounter severe attenuation.
The statistics emerging from the present survey does suggest some attenuation in the level of public dissatisfaction with sentence severity.
The degree of attenuation is going to depend on a number of things including antenna size.

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