1. Hold attention and exert mental effort on something
   "Please concentrate on your studies and not on your hobbies";
   - focus, center [US], centre [Brit, Cdn], pore, rivet, pore over
    
2. Make denser, stronger, or purer
   "concentrate juice"
    
3. Extract the essential meaning or most important aspects of something
   "concentrate the contents of a book into a summary";
   - digest, condense, distil [Brit], distill [N. Amer]
    
4. Make central
   "They concentrated their operations in the new headquarters";
   - centralize, centralise [Brit]
    
5. Draw together or meet in one common centre
   "These groups concentrate in the inner cities"
    
6. Compress or concentrate
   "The solution concentrated as it evaporated";
   - condense, contract
    
7. (cooking) cook until very little liquid is left
   "The cook concentrated the sauce by boiling it for a long time";
   - reduce, boil down

1. A concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water
   "Orange juice concentrate is a common ingredient in many recipes"
    
2. The desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore
   "The concentrate was ready for smelting";
   - dressed ore
    
3. A concentrated example of something
   "the concentrate of contemporary despair"

Derived forms: concentrated, concentrates, concentrating

Type of: abbreviate, abridge, alter, cerebrate, change, change state, cogitate, contract, converge, cut, decrease, epitome, food product, foodstuff, foreshorten, image, lessen, minify, modify, ore, paradigm, prototype, reduce, shorten, think, turn

Antonym: decentralise [Brit]

Encyclopedia: Concentrate