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attenuative

The English word “attenuative” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

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