dilute
IPA: daɪɫˈut
noun
- An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
verb
- (transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.
- (transitive) To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
- (transitive, stock market) To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
- (intransitive) To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
adjective
- Having a low concentration.
- Weak; reduced in strength by dilution; diluted.
- Of an animal: having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
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Examples of "dilute" in Sentences
- Polymer molecules in dilute solutions form loops, or
- It cannot be improved, and Straw can't be allowed to merely "dilute" it.
- The experimental search for BEC in dilute gases started early with the use of spin-polarised hydrogen in
- When hydrogen chloride liquifiedi n water, the result is called dilute hydrochloric acid, and they usually liquified before it sell in the market.
- When hydrogen chloride liqueifiedi n water, the result is called dilute hydrochloric acid, and they usually liquified before it sell in the market.
- So Wang and his colleagues made dome-shaped structures of 95 percent germanium with 5 percent manganese, a material known as a dilute magnetic semiconductor.
- New hires "dilute" the increases in productivity of existing staff, a situation which I believe caused productivity numbers from the mid-late 90s to be lower than what you might expect from the level of capital investment at the time.
- This relatively greater need for nutriment being admitted, as it must be, the question that remains is -- shall we meet it by giving an excessive quantity of what may be called dilute food, or a more moderate quantity of concentrated food?
- "osmotic pressure" in solutions which are sufficiently dilute is proportionate to the concentration and the absolute temperature so that this pressure can be represented by a formula which only deviates from the formula for gas pressure by a coefficient
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