concentre
/kɒnˈsɛntə
/(US concenter)
verb [with object]
1Concentrate (something) in a small space or area: the property of this country is concentred in a very few hands...
- The property of this country is absolutely concentred in a very few hands, having revenues of from half a million of guineas a year downwards.
- But his favours to three thousand were concentered in one body.
- Why do tertiary alcohols react faster with concentred hydrochloric acid than do secondary or primary alcohol?
1.1 [no object] Come together at a common centre: here the produce of this extensive territory concentres...
- Some dissatisfaction turns his meditation into what Charles Berger calls the ‘dark countersong’ of a ‘counter-sublime’, as it questions the relation between ‘concentred self’ and Other, between particular and general.
- Penn's letter, of 1683, to the Free Society of Traders, sufficiently intimates the cause of its location there, showing that Penn expected business to concentre there.
- The fury of the battle seemed to concentre there, and through the time-worn walls the shot was plunging, splintering the planks and beams, and shivering the stone foundation.
1.2 archaic Bring (two or more things) towards a common centre: a passion in which soul and body were concentred
Origin
Late 16th century: from French concentrer, from Latin con- 'together' + centrum 'centre'.