Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus wherein solutions or other products of manufacture are concentrated.
- noun One who or that which concentrates.
- noun In firearms: A wire frame or other device in which the shot are placed in the cartridge to hold them together when discharged from the gun, and which thus serves to effect close shooting.
- noun A device which can be attached to the mouth of the bore of a shotgun, slightly narrowing it, to concentrate the shot when they are discharged.
- noun In mining, the name frequently given, especially in the United States, to any complicated form of machine used in ore-dressing, or in separating the particles of ore or metal from the gangue or rock with which they are associated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mining) An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.
- noun (Firearms) A frame or ring of wire or hard paper fitting into the cartridge case used in some shotguns, and holding the shot together when discharged, to secure close shooting; also, a device for slightly narrowing the bore at the muzzle for the same purpose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun telecommunications A
hub . - noun mining An
apparatus for theseparation of drycomminuted ore , by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The effluent coming out of the final concentrator is a thick “liquor,” 67 percent solids, that can be incinerated along with the volatile organics stripped out of the foul condensate.
Archive 2006-04-16 Edward Willett 2006
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The effluent coming out of the final concentrator is a thick “liquor,” 67 percent solids, that can be incinerated along with the volatile organics stripped out of the foul condensate.
The world's first zero-effluent pulp mill Edward Willett 2006
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The entry resides in the ARP cache until the concentrator is rebooted; it cannot be saved in Flash memory for subsequent use.
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Enter up to five CVC names for the customer, and for each CVC, select a concentrator from the Device drop-down list.
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This is inconvenient; it means another week's rental of the portable concentrator, which is supposed to be delivered tomorrow, and it would throw some of next week's plans off.
Best Laid Plans Susan Palwick 2009
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The iron pyrites in the ore contains gold which cannot be separated by the crushing process and a machine called a concentrator has been invented to save this also.
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Exploration successes so far have established a portfolio of gold, copper, molybdenum and rhenium mineral resources that the company plans to process at the Osborne concentrator, which is part of the mining complex acquired from Barrick Australia in 2010.
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Depending on the VPN in use, you may require a device called a concentrator, or a specially configured server.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Lynn Greiner 2011
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The extension beyond 2012 will enable the company to maximise use of a nearby ore concentrator, which is being modified to increase input to 8 million tonnes annually from 6.5 million currently, according to the company.
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The west mill - also called a concentrator - began operation in 1957 and closed in 1961.
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