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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