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mitigation

ˌmɪtɪˈgeɪʃən
WordNet
  1. (n) mitigation
    the action of lessening in severity or intensity "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions"
  2. (n) mitigation
    to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
  3. (n) mitigation
    a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Mitigation
    The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) mitigation
    The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; alleviation; abatement or diminution of anything harsh, painful, severe, afflictive, calamitous, or the like.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Mitigation
    act of mitigating: alleviation: abatement
Quotations
Tryon Edwards
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
Tryon Edwards
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Marshall Mcluhan
King Jr. Martin Luther
We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
King Jr. Martin Luther
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. mitigacioun, F. mitigation, fr. L. mitigatio,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. mitigāre, -atummitis, mild.

Usage in the news

Make government mitigate the risks. news-record.com

Sugar may make you "stupid" but omega-3 might mitigate the effect, rat study suggests. cbsnews.com

But, don't fret: Omega-3 fatty acids may be able to mitigate the effects. cbsnews.com

I want to enjoy the ambiance of a well-planned community that makes good use of land, but also supports a mitigated traffic solution. delmartimes.net

Work with your enterprise customer in assessing the risks in advance when you deploy Windows 7, and you will survive the challenges around application mitigation . crn.com

How to Successfully Help Customers Mitigate Application Issues Around Windows 7. crn.com

Our primary mitigation activity involves not putting 30-year or 20-year fixed-rate conventional first-mortgages in our portfolio. cutimes.com

Division Manager at the NFPA about implementable practices for mitigating the risk of dust explosions. chemicalprocessing.com

Mitigate the Impact of Employee Absences. shrm.org

When e-commerce teams consider ways to mitigate shopping cart abandonment, email rarely tops the list. destinationcrm.com

Dr Marcelo Rivera, director of the Palomar Pomerado Health Board, noted that is a significant amount and said they need to look at the project economically and see if those fees could be mitigated . ramonasentinel.com

TODAY'S QUESTION: How can the government best mitigate the effects of unemployment for Americans. columbiamissourian.com

Fundraisers help mitigate family's storm-damage expenses. spotlightnews.com

The first step in mitigating risk is to understand where the threat of loss resides at your institution. banknews.com

Peat bogs play an essential role in mitigating climate change by keeping billions of tons of carbon buried beneath them. motherearthnews.com

Usage in scientific papers

This effect is mitigated somewhat by the presence of an effective Higgs potential below the scale of the Dirac gaugino masses (needed to obtain a phenomenologically viable Higgs mass).
Electroweak Baryogenesis in R-symmetric Supersymmetry

As a rule of thumb, there should be more than ten samples per bin, even though we are mitigating the ill effects of too few samples using Laplace correction. As shown in Table 1, there are on average 700 website visits per user.
Practical Context Awareness: Measuring and Utilizing the Context Dependency of Mobile Usage

Password safes, while mitigating poor usability and cumbersome management, do not fix passwords.
KeyAuth: Bringing Public-key Authentication to the Masses

Single sign-on (SSO) systems only partially mitigate the fundamental flaws of passwords.
KeyAuth: Bringing Public-key Authentication to the Masses

The regularization approach of Section 4.1 mitigates this issue to a great extent, however, it does not provide a stopping criterion for the separation rank increase.
Non-intrusive Low-Rank Separated Approximation of High-Dimensional Stochastic Models

Usage in literature

If you have interest to prevent or mitigate it, that reason will, I think, suffice to enlist you on my behalf. "Paul Clifford, Complete" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

You must be mine for ever, or our parting must be without a mitigation, which is rather a cruelty than a relief. "Falkland, Complete" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

But even that bereavement was mitigated by distractions alike inevitable and ennobling. "Lothair" by Benjamin Disraeli

On the next page, some mitigation of this severity followed in a postscript. "The Fallen Leaves" by Wilkie Collins

This divides and mitigates the impatient jealousy against others. "The Pilgrims Of The Rhine" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

When the great sentence passes, be increas'd, Or mitigated, or as now severe? "The Vision of Hell, Complete" by Dante Alighieri

When the great sentence passes, be increas'd, Or mitigated, or as now severe? "The Divine Comedy, Complete" by Dante Alighieri

Has the accused anything to say in his defence, or can he plead mitigating circumstances? "The Road to Damascus" by August Strindberg

He never was a man to whom a successful appeal for the slightest mitigation of justice could have been made. "With Edged Tools" by Henry Seton Merriman

Honour likewise endeavoured to vindicate his crime, and Pity to mitigate his punishment. "Joseph Andrews Vol. 1" by Henry Fielding

Usage in poetry
If God against thee is incens'd with rage,
If he has scourg'd thee with distempers dire,
The Lamb's dear Blood his anger will assuage,
And briny tears will mitigate his ire.
Avert thine eyes. Lapse softly from my sight,
Call not my name, nor heed if thine I crave,
So shalt thou sink through mitigated night
And bathe thee in the all-effacing wave.
"NO, fair DANCINDA, no; you strive in vain
"To calm my care and mitigate my pain ;
"If all my sighs, my cares, can fail to move,
"Ah! sooth me not with fruitless vows of love."
AND thus, at length his plaintive lip express'd
The mitigated pang; 't is sometimes so
When grief meets genius in the mortal breast,
And words, most deeply sweet, betray subsided woe.
Truth, they expect from falsehood's lying sire,
Whoe'er consult with the divining train:
They slay their souls, who from such cheats enquire
For charms to cure, or mitigate their pain.
The Thracian bard, as poets tell,
Could mitigate the powers of hell,
Even Pluto's nicer ear:
His arts, no more than Love's, we find
To deities or men confined,
Drew brutes in crowds to hear.