Concentrate

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /kÉ’n.sÉ™n.treɪt/

Origin

From French concentrer.

Full definition of concentrate

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) 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 focusto concentrate the attentionLet me concentrate!
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; -- opposed to dilute.to concentrate acid by evaporationto concentrate by washing
3. To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.Population tends to concentrate in cities.
• 2006, w, Internal Combustion Chapter 2, 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. (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).

Derived terms

• concentrated

Noun

1. A substance that is in a condensed form.