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DILUTION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Weakening (reducing the concentration) by the addition of water or a thinner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("dilution" is a kind of...):

weakening (the act of reducing the strength of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dilution"):

cutting; thinning (the act of diluting something)

Antonym:

concentration (strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material)

Derivation:

dilute (lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture)

dilute (corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A diluted solution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("dilution" is a kind of...):

solution (a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution)

Derivation:

dilute (lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture)

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 Context examples: 

For example, if a pinhead-sized sample of brain tissue from an Alzheimer’s patient were pulverized and diluted into a thousand gallons of liquid, the test still could detect tau seeds in a pinhead-sized volume of that dilution.

(New test detects protein associated with Alzheimer’s and CTE, National Institutes of Health)