weakening

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weakening

1. Present participle of weaken.

[edit] Noun

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weakening (countable and uncountable; plural weakenings)

1. An instance or process of loss of strength
2. (uncountable) (mathematics) A structural principle of mathematical logic that states that the hypotheses of any derived fact may be freely extended with additional assumptions