concentration

English

Pronunciation

• 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.
   1. (chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (eg parts per million (ppm))

Coordinate terms

• (course of study): major, minor

Translations

proportion of substance in a mixture

• Bulgarian: концентрация (bg) f (koncentracija)
• Catalan: concentració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 濃度 (cmn), 浓度 (cmn) (nóngdù)

• Dutch: concentratie (nl) f
• German: Konzentration (de) f
• Greek: συγκέντρωση (el) (sigkéntrosi) f 
• Hebrew: ריכוז (he) (rikuz) m
• Italian: concentrazione (it) f

• Japanese: 濃度 (ja) (のうど, nōdo)
• Malay: kepekatan (ms)
• Polish: stężenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: concentração (pt) f, concentrações (pt) pl
• Romanian: concentrație (ro) f
• Russian: концентрация (ru) (koncentrácija) m 
• Telugu: గాఢత (te)
• Turkish: konsantrasyon (tr), derişim (tr)

The amount of solute present in a solution

• Bulgarian: концентрация (bg) f (koncentracija)
• Italian: concentrazione (it) f
• Lithuanian: koncentracija (lt) f

• Polish: stężenie (pl) n
• Russian: концентрация (ru) (koncentrácija) m 
• Sindhi: ڳُوڙهائي (sd) f

The act or process of concentrating

• Bulgarian: концентриране (bg) (koncentrirane), сгъстяване (bg) n (sgǎstjavane)
• Catalan: concentració (ca) f
• Czech: koncentrace (cs) f
• Dutch: concentratie (nl)
• Finnish: keskittyminen (fi)
• German: Konzentration (de) f
• Greek: συγκέντρωση (el) (sigkéntrosi) f 

• Hebrew: ריכוז (he) (rikuz) m
• Italian: concentrazione (it) f
• Lithuanian: koncentracija (lt) f
• Russian: концентрация (ru) (koncentrácija) m 
• Turkish: konsantrasyon (tr), motivasyon (tr)

The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid

• Bulgarian: сгъстяване (bg) n (sgǎstjavane)
• Catalan: concentració (ca) f
• Czech: koncentrace (cs) f
• Dutch: concentratie (nl)

• German: Konzentration (de) f
• Italian: concentrazione (it) f
• Malay: pemekatan (ms)
• Russian: сгущение (ru) (sguščénije) n 

The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass

• Bulgarian: обогатяване (bg) n (obogatjavane)

• Russian: обогащение (ru) (obogaščénije) n 

course of study

• Latin: animadversio (la)

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Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ריכוז (he), rikuz (he), m
• Portuguese: concentração (pt) f

• Spanish: concentración (es)

See also

• salinity

External links

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

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French

Etymology

First attested 1732 concentrer +‎ -ation.

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