amortiguación
Spanish, noun/amoɾtiɡwaˈθjon/
amortiguación is spelled A-M-O-R-T-I-G-U-A-C-I-Ó-N (13 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 64,424th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amortiguación is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “dampening, attenuation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Variante de amortiguamiento”.
What does amortiguación mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedampening, attenuation
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de amortiguamiento. 2. Sistema mecánico capaz de reducir la intensidad de impactos o vibraciones repentinas mediante su acción estabilizadora.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of amortiguación
- amortiguaciones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce amortiguación?
- /amoɾtiɡwaˈθjon/
- [a.moɾ.t̪i.ɣ̞waˈθjõn]
- /amoɾtiɡwaˈsjon/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is amortiguación in Spanish?
amortiguación appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).