Translate concentrate | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of concentrate
verb
1 [no object] focus one’s attention or mental effort on a particular object or activity:she couldn’t concentrate on the movie (
concentrate on/upon)
do or deal with (one particular thing) above all others:Luke wants to concentrate on his film career
2 [with object] gather (people or things) together in numbers or in a mass:wealth was concentrated in the hands of the governing elite [no object] come together in numbers or in a mass:troops were concentrating at the western front increase the strength or proportion of (a substance or solution) by removing or reducing the water or any other diluting agent or by selective accumulation of atoms or molecules.
noun
a substance made by removing water or other diluting agent; a concentrated form of something, especially food:apple juice concentrate
