deattenuate

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English

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Etymology

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From de- +‎ attenuate.

Verb

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deattenuate (third-person singular simple present deattenuates, present participle deattenuating, simple past and past participle deattenuated)

  1. To remove attenuation (from)
    • 2015 October 15, “Relative Validity of Three Food Frequency Questionnaires for Assessing Dietary Intakes of Guatemalan Schoolchildren”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Our correction for measurement error helped deattenuate some of the results, though it did not do so for all nutrients across all FFQs of the study.
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