concentration
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From concentrate + -ion.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɒnsənˈtɹeɪʃən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkɑnsənˈtɹeɪʃən/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
[edit]concentration (usually uncountable, plural concentrations)
- The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
- The direction of attention to a specific object.
- The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
- The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
- A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
- The proportion of a substance in a whole.
- 1972, Leo A. Orleans, Every Fifth Child: The Population of China[1], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 117:
- The Koreans
Almost all the Koreans in China live in the north-eastern provinces. The greatest concentration is found in an area of approximately 1,200 square miles in Kirin Province, an area which is part of the Yen-pien Korean Autonomous Chou.
- 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:
- Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
- (physical chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))
- The matching game pelmanism.
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- bioconcentration
- concentrational
- concentration camp
- concentration cell
- concentration effect
- concentration table
- concentration time
- concentration-time curve
- critical micelle concentration
- cryoconcentration
- deconcentration
- haemoconcentration
- hemoconcentration
- hyperconcentration
- leukoconcentration
- mascon
- minimum inhibitory concentration
- molal concentration
- molar concentration
- n-firm concentration ratio
- nonconcentration
- overconcentration
- preconcentration
- radioconcentration
- reconcentration
- superconcentration
- time of concentration
Translations
[edit]act or process of concentrating
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direction of attention to a specific object
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act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid
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act or process of removing the dress of ore
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course of study on which one focuses
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proportion of substance in a mixture
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chemistry: amount of solute present in a solution
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matching game pelmanism — see pelmanism
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Concentration (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Concentration (chemistry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested 1732, from concentrer + -ation.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]concentration f (plural concentrations)
- concentration (mental state of being concentrated)
- concentration (quality of being concentrated)
- la concentration de sucre
- the concentration of sugar
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: concentrație
- → Turkish: konsantrasyon
Further reading
[edit]- “concentration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]concentration (plural concentrationes)
- concentration (state or degree of being concentrated)
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