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Attenuative

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Tending to attenuate or lessen the force of something.

    "Ceramic armour is used in armoured vehicles for its attenuative properties."

  2. 2
    Of a yeast, capable of high attenuation, able to convert a high proportion of sugar to alcohol.

Etymology

From attenuate + -ive.

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