MITIGATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mitigation mean? 

• MITIGATION (noun)
  The noun MITIGATION has 3 senses:

1. to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

2. a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances

3. the action of lessening in severity or intensity

  Familiarity information: MITIGATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MITIGATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

extenuation; mitigation; palliation

Hypernyms ("mitigation" is a kind of...):

decrease; diminution; reduction; step-down (the act of decreasing or reducing something)

Derivation:

mitigate (lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

extenuation; mitigation

Hypernyms ("mitigation" is a kind of...):

alibi; exculpation; excuse; self-justification (a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.)

Derivation:

mitigate (make less severe or harsh)

mitigate (lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The action of lessening in severity or intensity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

mitigation; moderation

Context example:

the object being control or moderation of economic depressions

Hypernyms ("mitigation" is a kind of...):

decrease; diminution; reduction; step-down (the act of decreasing or reducing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mitigation"):

abatement (the act of abating)

 Context examples 

An article other than food intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease; or intended to affect the structure or any function of the body.

(Pharmacologic Substance, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

GBC-590 binds to and inhibits galectin-3 receptor, resulting in mitigation of the metastatic process.

(GBC-590, NCI Thesaurus)

You will remember, as the only mitigation of his crime, that he was not yet one and twenty years of age.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While the individual simulations of the model differed on the timing, the research suggests that changes may be inevitable in large regions of the Southern Ocean, regardless of future mitigation efforts.

(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)

Climate scientists have long recognized the importance of forest conservation and forest regrowth in climate mitigation and carbon sequestration — capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)

A decrease can happen in both scenarios — business-as-usual (increase in temperature above 3 degrees Celsius by 2100) and strong mitigation (below 1.7 degrees Celsius by 2100) — but to a lesser extent in a low emissions scenario.

(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)

It provides policy-oriented solutions for decision-makers in taking adaptation and mitigation actions.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)

A person who acts as a channel for communication with a commercial enterprise which produces substances intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.

(Drug Company Contact, NCI Thesaurus)

The primary individual who over a period of time checks on and maintains continuous observation of state, condition, situation, or process relating to substances intended for use in diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease as a check on output, efficiency, conduct, etc. and warns of faults, or gives advice and instruction by way of reporting or caution.

(Lead Drug Monitor, NCI Thesaurus)

An active natural, synthetic or semi-synthetic ingredient including endogenous body substance that is intended to furnish pharmacological activity or other direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease or to affect the structure or any function of the human body, but does not include intermediates used in the synthesis of such ingredient (21 CFR 314.3(b)).

(Pharmacologic Substance, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)