found: Work cat.: Evans, John S. Calculated radio attenuation due to plasma sheath on hypersonic blunt-nosed cone, 1963:p. 1 ("The ionized layer around a space vehicle during reentry strongly attenuates radio signals and therefore often breaks communication links with the ground")
found: McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms, 2003:p. 161 ("attenuation ... - phys[ics] - The reduction in level of a quantity, such as the intensity of a wave, over an interval of a variable, such as the distance from a source")
found: Academic Press dictionary of science and technology, 1992:p. 179 ("attenuation - physics - a reduction in amplitude, density, or energy as the result of such effects as friction, absorption, or scattering")
found: Chambers dictionary of science and technology, 1999:p. 75 ("attenuation - (phys[ics], telecommun[ications]) - general term for reduction in magnitude, amplitude or intensity of a physical quantity, arising from absorption, scattering or geometrical dispersion. The latter, arising from diminution by the inverse-square law, is not generally considered as attenuation proper")
