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English
Etymology
concentrate + -ion
Pronunciation
Noun
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, 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.
- (chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))
- The matching game pelmanism.
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Translations
act or process of concentrating
- Azerbaijani: təmərküz, təmərküzləşmə
- Bulgarian: концентриране (koncentrirane), сгъстяване (bg) n (sgǎstjavane)
- Catalan: concentració (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 專注力/专注力 (zhuānzhù-lì) (powers of concentration)
- Czech: koncentrace (cs) f
- Dutch: concentratie (nl)
- Finnish: keskittäminen (fi), keskitys (fi); keskittyminen (fi)
- French: concentration (fr)
- German: Konzentration (de) f
- Greek: συγκέντρωση (el) f (sygkéntrosi)
- Ancient: συγκέντρωσις f (sunkéntrōsis)
- Hebrew: ריכוז (he) m (rikuz)
- Indonesian: konsentrasi (id)
- Italian: concentrazione (it) f
- Japanese: 集中 (ja) (しゅうちゅう, shūchū), 集中力 (ja) (しゅうちゅうりょく, shūchū-ryoku) (powers of concentration)
- Korean: 집중(集中) (ko) (jipjung), 집중력(集中力) (ko) (jipjungnyeok) (power of concentration)
- Lithuanian: koncentracija (lt) f
- Malay: pemekatan, konsentrasi (ms)
- Maori: kukūtanga
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: анхаарал (mn) (anxaaral) (attention), анхаарал төвлөрөх (anxaaral tövlöröx)
- Mongolian: ᠠᠩᠬᠠᠷᠤᠯ (aŋqarul), ᠠᠩᠬᠠᠷᠤᠯ
ᠲᠥᠪᠯᠡᠷᠡᠬᠦ (aŋqarul töblerekü)
- Persian: تمرکز (fa) (tamarkoz)
- Polish: koncentracja (pl) f, skupienie (pl) n
- Portuguese: concentração (pt) f
- Romanian: concentrare (ro) f
- Russian: концентра́ция (ru) m (koncentrácija)
- Spanish: concentración (es)
- Swedish: koncentration (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagpapalapot
- Turkish: konsantrasyon (tr), motivasyon (tr)
- Ukrainian: концентра́ція f (koncentrácija), зосередженість (uk) f (zoseredženistʹ)
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direction of attention to a specific object
act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid
act or process of removing the dress of ore
course of study on which one focuses
proportion of substance in a mixture
chemistry: amount of solute present in a solution
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Further reading
French
Etymology
First attested 1732, from concentrer + -ation.
Pronunciation
Noun
concentration f (plural concentrations)
- concentration (mental state of being concentrated)
- concentration (quality of being concentrated)
la concentration de sucre- the concentration of sugar
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Interlingua
Noun
concentration (plural concentrationes)
- concentration (state or degree of being concentrated)