amortecimento
Portuguese, noun/a.moʁ.te.siˈmẽ.tu/
amortecimento is spelled A-M-O-R-T-E-C-I-M-E-N-T-O (13 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 47,790th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amortecimento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “deadening; muffling; dampening; mitigation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fenômeno pelo qual a energia mecânica de um sistema é dissipada”.
What does amortecimento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedeadening; muffling; dampening; mitigation
- 2
masculinenumbness (absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation)
- 3
masculinedamping (the stabilisation of a physical system by reducing oscillation)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fenômeno pelo qual a energia mecânica de um sistema é dissipada
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of amortecimento
- amortecimentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce amortecimento?
- Brazil /a.moʁ.te.siˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil [a.moh.te.siˈmẽ.tu]
- /a.moɾ.te.siˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to amortecimento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is amortecimento in Portuguese?
amortecimento appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).