concentrator
/ˈkɑnsənˌtreɪtər/
noun
- A person who focuses their attention or mental effort on a particular task or subject.
- She was a natural concentrator, able to block out all distractions.
- Good concentrators often perform better on difficult tests.
- As a deep concentrator, he could read for hours without noticing the time.
- A device or machine that increases the strength or purity of a substance by removing unwanted parts.
- The laboratory's concentrator extracted pure ethanol from the mixture.
- The oxygen concentrator helped the patient breathe more easily at home.
- Miners use a concentrator to separate valuable ore from waste rock.
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