In Wine and Beer making, attenuation is the measure of thoroughness of fermentation. It is typically given as a percentage number describing how much available sugar has been converted to alcohol during the Fermentation process.
In Telecommunication , attenuation is the decrease in Intensity of a Signal , Beam , or wave as a result of Absorption of energy and of scattering out of the Path to the Detector , but not including the reduction due to geometric spreading.
In Electronics and audio, attenuation is the decrease in amplitude of an electrical signal. '''Attenuation''' is the opposite of Amplification . For example a volume control on an audio system may be referred to as an attenuator.
In Kant's philosophy, though the word attenuation is not mentioned directly, it occurs as '''attention''' 27 times, and is one of the most important words in Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason , his Critical Tables {Link without Title}