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Verb
/ˈkänsənˌtrāt/,
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concentrates, 3rd person singular present; concentrated, past tense; concentrated, past participle; concentrating, present participle;
  1. Focus one's attention or mental effort on a particular object or activity
    • - she couldn't concentrate on the movie
  2. Do or deal with (one particular thing) above all others
    • - Luke wants to concentrate on his film career
  3. Gather (people or things) together in numbers or in a mass to one point
    • - wealth was concentrated in concentrated in the hands of the governing elite
  4. Come together in this way
    • - troops were concentrating at the western front
  5. Increase the strength or proportion of (a substance or solution) by removing or reducing the water or any other diluting agent or by selective accumulation of atoms or molecules

Noun
  1. A substance made by removing water or other diluting agent; a concentrated form of something, esp. food
    • - apple juice concentrate
  1. (concentrate) dressed ore: the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore
  2. (concentrate) make denser, stronger, or purer; "concentrate juice"
  3. (concentrate) direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
  4. (concentrate) centralize: make central; "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food"
  5. (concentrate) digest: make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary"
  6. (concentrate) boil down: be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
  7. A concentrate is a form of substance which has had the majority of its base component (in the case of a liquid: the solvent) removed. Typically this will be the removal of water from a solution or suspension such as the removal of water from fruit juice. ...
  8. (Concentrate (military)) Force concentration is the practice of concentrating a military force, so as to bring to bear such overwhelming force against a portion of an enemy force that the disparity between the two forces alone acts as a force multiplier, in favour of the concentrated forces.
  9. (Concentrate (screenplay)) Concentrate (Концентрат, Konsentrat) is a never-filmed 1958 screenplay by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky. The screenplay is based on Tarkovsky's year in the taiga as a member of a research expedition, prior to his enrollment in film school.
  10. (concentrate) A substance that is in a condensed form; , (intransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of ...
  11. (concentrate) A feed used with another to improve the nutritive balance of the total and intended to be further-diluted and mixed to produce a supplement or a complete feed.
  12. (Concentrate) In crossflow filtration, the portion of a feed stream which does not permeate the medium but retains and is increased in the amount of ions, organics, and suspended particles which are rejected by the medium
  13. (Concentrate) A metal-rich product resulting from a mineral enrichment process such as gravity concentration or flotation, in which most of the desired mineral has been separated from the waste material in the ore
  14. (Concentrate) A product that must be diluted at least eight parts by volume water prior to its intended use (Green Seal 37)
  15. (Concentrate) A fine, powdery product of the milling process containing a high percentage of valuable metal.
  16. (CONCENTRATE) To process a wort or grape juice using boiling and/or vacuum evaporation, or the product thus formed. Concentration of juice and wort allows easier packaging, extends aging capabilities, and reduces shipping costs. ...
  17. (CONCENTRATE) The intermediate stage of mining and processing by which time unwanted minerals have been removed thus increasing the gold content in preparation for refining.
  18. (Concentrate) A pelletized plastic material containing highly loaded pigments which is used in a polymer system to change the final color and/or properties of a plastic part.
  19. (Concentrate) A process that removes water from the fruit and enhances the fruit value by that proportion
  20. (Concentrate) A product that requires thinning with an appropriate reducer, water, solvent.
  21. (Concentrate) A substance that has been concentrated; specifically a liquid that has been made denser, as by the removal of some of its water.
  22. (Concentrate) A term used in distillation, electrodialysis, reverse osmosis, and ultrafiltration to describe that portion of the incoming feedwater that has passed across the membrane but has not been converted to product water and is being sent to the drain.  Also called brine or retentate.
  23. (Concentrate) A very fine, powder-like product containing the valuable ore mineral from which most of the waste mineral has been eliminated.
  24. (Concentrate) An enriched fraction of an ore after separation from other unwanted minerals.
  25. (Concentrate) Feed grains and other processed feed materials that contain a high proportion of nutrients and are low in fiber, such as corn, oats or soybean meal.