How to Use attenuator in a Sentence

attenuator

noun
  • The best part is that the results are the same when the attenuator is put into the circuit.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 May 2018
  • Truck veers right, hits attenuators on right shoulder and loses control.
    — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The attenuator truck was behind a paint striping crew that was working on the interstate.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Slate hit an attenuator truck, which is designed to absorb high-impact collisions in work zones.
    — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021
  • The attenuator is supposed to absorb some of the impact instead of sending it all to the driver’s seat.
    — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • Crash attenuator vehicles and signing patterns will guide motorists through the work zone.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2025
  • The team was accused of stuffing and smoothing the seams of the rear attenuator, a part that is standard for all teams and therefore cannot be modified.
    — Eduard Cauich, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
  • The barrier that Huang hit was supposed to have a crash attenuator, which crumples to absorb some of the impact.
    — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Without the protection of the crash attenuator, the driver died.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Feb. 2020
  • McLaughlin will keep the 10th starting spot because his wrecked car was found to have used a legal attenuator.
    — Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025
  • The real magic is in the attenuator, which filters out the most damaging sounds without muffling them.
    — Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But the attenuator is a part which also falls under a crucial rule in IndyCar.
    — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • The Penske cars manipulated the attenuator, which is not allowed to be touched at all due to safety concerns.
    — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • Tesla said the reason the crash was so severe was because the attenuator had been crushed in a prior accident without being replaced.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The Toyota drove through the gore area, struck the Exit 2 off-ramp sign support and the impact attenuator, state police said.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 15 July 2024
  • An attenuator is a safety device that absorbs and dissipates energy when struck by a vehicle.
    — Michelle Cruz, AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • But the main attenuator of all the nasty oxides and other chemical compounds that come from combustion is the catalytic converter.
    — Robin Warner, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2023
  • His car caused extensive damage to the pit attenuator, used to minimize damage during collisions.
    — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2020
  • After several nodes of interference, the light would travel through a series of attenuators, which cut the intensity of the light down slightly.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 June 2017
  • However, the crash attenuator that the Tesla impacted had been damaged a week prior, when another car hit the barrier at the same spot.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2018
  • The damage likely made the attenuator ineffective and contributed to Huang’s death.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 7 June 2018
  • Galilee desperately needs a multimillion-dollar wave attenuator, which decreases wave height and energy to protect docks from storm damage.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
  • IndyCar vehicles are equipped with an attenuator on the rear of the car, designed to crush in accidents and save the driver from severe injury by having that part of the car absorb more of the impact.
    — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • The resulting damage made the attenuator ineffective and likely contributed to Huang's death.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 7 June 2018
  • The report does not assign blame but says that Huang had received warnings to place his hands back on the wheel about 15 minutes prior to the crash, and that the car steered itself into the broken highway attenuator.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 10 June 2018
  • The output from the attenuator passes into a headphone amplifier, output selector, and a low-frequency subwoofer output.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Feb. 2022
  • And with the too-late carnage that stemmed from teammate Spencer Pigot’s smash into the pit lane attenuator on Lap 196, maybe Sato took advantage of a small bout of luck coming home, too.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The seemingly minor rules infraction at Team Penske was modifications to the rear attenuator by applying a different color of Loctite to the seam.
    — Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
  • Investigators have previously said the attenuator, overseen by the California Department of Transportation, had been damaged in a previous incident and had not been reset.
    — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Detectives said a vehicle carrying three people ran into an impact attenuator on Interstate 35E at the Northwest Highway exit, causing the vehicle to roll over several times.
    — Jared Weber, Dallas News, 28 Nov. 2020

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