Definition of "concentrate" []

• To direct or draw toward a common center; focus. (verb-transitive)
• To bring into one main body: Authority was concentrated in the president. (verb-transitive)
• To make (a solution or mixture) less dilute. (verb-transitive)
• To converge toward or meet in a common center. (verb-intransitive)
• To increase by degree; gather: "Dusk began to concentrate into full night” ( Anthony Hyde). (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Whey protein concentrate is just the powder that's left when the liquid whey is dried."
• "But this popular milk alternative, made from whole soybeans or soy protein concentrate, is considered a nutritionally adequate alternative to cow's milk thanks to its protein content."
• "For your exercise in this chapter, concentrate—and when I use the word concentrate, I mean all that the word implies; become so absorbed in the object of your thought that you are conscious of nothing else, and do this a few minutes every day."