concentrate

UK /ˈkɒn.sən.tɹeɪt/ US /ˈkɑn.sən.tɹeɪt/
verb 4adj 1noun 1

Definitions

verb

1

To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.

to concentrate rays of light into a focus

to concentrate the attention

2

To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.

to concentrate acid by evaporation

to concentrate by washing

3

To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.

Population tends to concentrate in cities.

Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.

4

To focus one's thought or attention (on).

(oneself)

Let me concentrate!

adj

1

concentrated

It is, when good, a concentrate yellow.

Subtracting the liters of concentrate fluid required in the diluted operation.

noun

1

A substance that is in a condensed form.

orange concentrate

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