English

Verb

concentrate ‎(third-person singular simple present concentrates, present participle concentrating, simple past and past participle concentrated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) 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

   Let 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 (as opposed to 'dilute').

   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.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:

     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).

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Derived terms

• concentrated

Noun

concentrate ‎(plural concentrates)

1. A substance that is in a condensed form.

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Italian

Adjective

concentrate

1. feminine plural of concentrato

Verb

concentrate

1. second-person plural present of concentrare
2. second-person plural imperative of concentrare
3. feminine plural of concentrato, past participle of concentrare

Anagrams

• concertante, concretante