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Dilute vs Condense - What's the difference?

dilute | condense |

As verbs the difference between dilute and condense

is that dilute is to make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water while condense is .

As adjectives the difference between dilute and condense

is that dilute is having a low concentration while condense is condensed.

dilute

English

Verb

(dilut)
  • To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water.
  • * Blackmore
    • Mix their watery store / With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.
  • To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
  • * Sir Isaac Newton
    • Lest these colours should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light.
  • (stock market) To cause the value of individual shares to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
  • To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
    • it dilutes easily

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a low concentration.
    • Clean the panel with a dilute , neutral cleaner.
  • Weak; reduced in strength due to dilution, diluted.

    • Related terms

    * diluent * dilutant * dilution * diluvium * dilutable

    See also

    * (Concentration) * dilate

    References

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    condense

    English

    Alternative forms

    * condence

    Verb

  • To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.
    • An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.
    Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.
  • To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate.
  • * Milton
    • In what shape they choose, / Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure.
  • * Motley
    • The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
  • (chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.

    • Synonyms

    * (to decrease size or volume) minify

    Antonyms

    * extend * magnify

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.
    • The huge condense bodies of planets. — Bentley.
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