amortecimento

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From amortecer (“to muffle”) +‎ -mento. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: a‧mor‧te‧ci‧men‧to === Noun === amortecimento m (plural amortecimentos) deadening; muffling; dampening; mitigation Synonym: enfraquecimento (physiology) numbness (absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation) Synonym: dormência (mechanics) damping (the stabilisation of a physical system by reducing oscillation) ==== Related terms ==== amortecedor === Further reading === “amortecimento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “amortecimento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026