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1. Of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced
    
2. Intensely focused
   "her concentrated passion held them at bay"
    
3. Gathered together or made less diffuse
   "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore"
    
4. (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
   - hard
    
5. Being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance
   "a concentrated solution";
   - saturated

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. Make central
   - centralize, centralise [Brit]
    
4. Make more concise
   "concentrate the contents of a book into a summary";
   - digest, condense, distill [N. Amer], distil [Brit]
    
5. Draw together or meet in one common centre
   "These groups concentrate in the inner cities"
    
6. Compress or concentrate
   - condense, contract
    
7. (cooking) be cooked until very little liquid is left
   "The sauce should concentrate to one cup";
   - boil down, reduce, decoct [archaic]
    
8. (cooking) cook until very little liquid is left
   "The cook concentrated the sauce by boiling it for a long time";
   - reduce, boil down

See also: bunchy, compact, cumulous, dense, exclusive, intense, single, supersaturated, thick, thickset, undiluted, undivided

Type of: abbreviate, abridge, alter, cerebrate, change, change state, cogitate, contract, converge, cut, decrease, diminish, fall, foreshorten, lessen, minify, modify, reduce, shorten, think, turn

Antonym: decentralize, distributed

Encyclopedia: Concentrated