rarefaction

In untreated fish, one of the most striking signs of kidney decline was the gradual loss of capillaries, a process known as vascular rarefaction.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2026

Our analyses were carried out using a modest sequencing depth of 5,000 observations per sample after Deblur and rarefaction.

From Nature ● Oct. 31, 2017

Figure 17.4 As the string moves to the left, it creates another compression and rarefaction as the ones on the right move away from the string.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

This is how noise-canceling headphones work—they produce a sound wave that resembles the wave responsible for the unwanted sound, but with the original phases of rarefaction and compression flipped.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 12, 2013

Finite things were formed from the infinite air by compression and rarefaction produced by eternally existent motion; and heat and cold resulted from varying degrees of density of the primal element.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various