concentration

concentration

English

Etymology

concentrate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒnsənˈtɹeɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑnsənˈtɹeɪʃən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

concentration (usually uncountable, plural concentrations)

1. The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
   1. The direction of attention to a specific object.
   2. The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
   3. 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.
2. A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
3. The proportion of a substance in a whole.
   • 1972, Orleans, Leo A., Every Fifth Child: The Population of China‎, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 70-190527, OCLC 1060533181, OL 5710549M, 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.

   1. (chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))
4. The matching game pelmanism.

Coordinate terms

• (course of study): major, minor

Derived terms

• concentration camp
• concentration-time curve
• critical micelle concentration
• molal concentration
• molar concentration
• n-firm concentration ratio

 

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 (しゅうちゅうりょく, shūchū-ryoku) (powers 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) 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 f (zoseredženistʹ)

direction of attention to a specific object

Azerbaijani: konsentrasiya Finnish: keskittyminen (fi)

act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid

Azerbaijani: qatılaşma Bulgarian: сгъстяване (bg) n (sgǎstjavane) Catalan: concentració (ca) f Czech: koncentrace (cs) f Dutch: concentratie (nl) Finnish: tiivistäminen (fi), väkevöittäminen French: concentration (fr) German: Konzentration (de) f Italian: concentrazione (it) f Malay: pemekatan, konsentrasi (ms) Portuguese: concentração (pt) f Romanian: concentrare (ro) f Russian: сгуще́ние (ru) n (sguščénije) Spanish: concentración (es)

act or process of removing the dress of ore

Azerbaijani: saflaşma Bulgarian: обогатяване (bg) n (obogatjavane) Finnish: rikastaminen (fi) Russian: обогаще́ние (ru) n (obogaščénije)

course of study on which one focuses

Finnish: suuntautuminen (fi), erikoistuminen (fi) Latin: animadversio

proportion of substance in a mixture

Afrikaans: konsentrasie (af) Azerbaijani: qatılıq Bulgarian: концентрация (bg) f (koncentracija) Catalan: concentració (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 濃度／浓度 (zh) (nóngdù) Dutch: concentratie (nl) f Finnish: pitoisuus (fi), konsentraatio (fi) French: concentration (fr) German: Konzentration (de) f Greek: συγκέντρωση (el) f (sygkéntrosi) Hebrew: ריכוז‎ (he) m (rikuz) Hindi: सांद्रता (hi) f (sāndratā) Italian: concentrazione (it) f Japanese: 濃度 (ja) (のうど, nōdo) Korean: 농도 (nongdo) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: xestî f Malay: kepekatan, konsentrasi (ms) Maori: kukūtanga Polish: koncentracja (pl) f, stężenie (pl) n Portuguese: concentração (pt) f Romanian: concentrație (ro) f Russian: концентра́ция (ru) m (koncentrácija) Spanish: concentración (es) Swedish: koncentration (sv) c Tagalog: damsik, lapot Telugu: గాఢత (gāḍhata) Turkish: konsantrasyon (tr), derişim (tr)

chemistry: amount of solute present in a solution

Afrikaans: konsentrasie (af) Azerbaijani: qatılıq dərəcəsi Bulgarian: концентрация (bg) f (koncentracija) Dutch: concentratie (nl) f Finnish: pitoisuus (fi), konsentraatio (fi) French: concentration (fr) Hindi: सांद्रता (hi) f (sāndratā) Indonesian: konsentrasi (id) Italian: concentrazione (it) f Korean: 농도 (nongdo) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: xestî f Lithuanian: koncentracija (lt) f Malay: kepekatan, konsentrasi (ms) Maori: kukūtanga Polish: koncentracja (pl) f, stężenie (pl) n Portuguese: concentração (pt) f Romanian: concentrație (ro) f Russian: концентра́ция (ru) m (koncentrácija) Sindhi: ڳُوڙهائي‎ (sd) f Spanish: concentración (es) Swedish: koncentration (sv) c Tagalog: damsik

matching game pelmanism — see pelmanism

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Translations to be checked

Hebrew: (please verify) ריכוז‎ (he), (please verify) rikuz‎, m

See also

• salinity

Further reading

• Concentration (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Concentration (chemistry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

First attested 1732, from concentrer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

concentration f (plural concentrations)

1. concentration (mental state of being concentrated)
2. concentration (quality of being concentrated)

   la concentration de sucre

   the concentration of sugar

Derived terms

• camp de concentration

Descendants

• → Romanian: concentrație
• → Turkish: konsantrasyon

Further reading

• “concentration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Interlingua

Noun

concentration (plural concentrationes)

1. concentration (state or degree of being concentrated)