  In this paper we study the fractal dimension of global attractors for a class
of wave equations with (single-point) degenerate nonlocal damping. Both the
equation and its linearization degenerate into linear wave equations at the
degenerate point and the usual approaches to bound the dimension of the
entirety of attractors do not work directly. Instead, we develop a new process
concerning the dimension near the degenerate point individually and show the
finite dimensionality of the attractor.
