tlumeného

Tlumeného is the genitive singular masculine form of the Czech adjective tlumený, meaning damped, muted, or attenuated. It is used to describe something whose intensity or activity has been reduced and can appear in both everyday language and technical prose.

In Czech grammar, tlumený derives from the verb tlumit, meaning to dampen or mute. The adjective agrees with the noun it modifies, with tlumeného marking masculine singular in the genitive case; other forms include tlumené (neuter) and tlumený (nominative masculine).

Common phrases include tlumeného zvuku (muted sound), tlumeného světla (dim light), and tlumeného motoru (damped engine) or tlumeného kmitání (damped oscillation). In physics and engineering, tlumení (damping) describes processes that cause amplitudes to decrease over time; tlumený describes the resulting state.

Outside technical usage, tlumeného can describe mood or tone in prose or speech, indicating a subdued or restrained quality, e.g., tlumeného tónu vyprávění (subdued tone of narration). The term is widely used across disciplines to convey reduced intensity without specifying the exact mechanism of attenuation.