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reconcentrate, v.|riːˈkɒnsəntreɪt|
[f. re- + concentrate, partly (sense a) after Sp. reconcentrar.]
a. trans. To bring together, concentrate, now spec. for military reasons.
b. trans. and intr. To concentrate again. Also refl.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. ii. 284 The visiue beames in both, reconcentrating themselues, in this encounter..strucke home vpon our soules. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 432 The concentrated ore, with some gangue with it, flows to the concentrators on the basement-floor, where it is reconcentrated to remove all the gangue. Ibid., This system of reconcentrating renders good concentration easy. 1884A. Forbes Chinese Gordon ii. 103 He abandoned further attempts on Kintang, and on the 24th had reconcentrated at Liyang.
So reconcenˈtration.
1898Westm. Gaz. 6 Apr. 7/1 Starvation of thousands of non-combatants [in Cuba] through reconcentration. 1956Nature 21 Jan. 126/2 Kunkel and Tiselius were not able to demonstrate the heterogeneity of serum albumin by their method, and the ability of the method here described to do this may also be due to this reduction of diffusion by reconcentration. 1972Times 26 June 12/3 Biological reconcentration of filter feeding organisms..invalidates the dilution hypothesis. |