v.
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(often concentrate on)
focus all one's attention on something.
- bring together in numbers or a mass in one place.
- increase the strength of (a solution).
n.
a concentrated form of something, especially food.
Derivative
- concentrated adj.
- concentratedly adv.
- concentrative adj.
- concentrator n.
Etymology
C17 (in the sense ‘bring towards a centre’): Latinized form of concentre, or from Fr. concentrer ‘to concentrate’.
