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con·cen·trate

 (kŏn′sən-trāt′)
v. con·cen·trat·ed, con·cen·trat·ing, con·cen·trates
v.tr.
1.
a. To direct or draw toward a common center; focus.
b. To bring into one main body: Authority was concentrated in the president.
2. To make (a solution or mixture) less dilute.
v.intr.
1.
a. To converge toward or meet in a common center.
b. To increase by degree; gather: "Dusk began to concentrate into full night" (Anthony Hyde).
2. To direct one's thoughts or attention: We concentrated on the task before us.
n.
A product that has been concentrated, especially a food that has been reduced in volume or bulk by the removal of liquid: pineapple juice concentrate.
[From concenter.]
con′cen·tra′tive adj.
con′cen·tra′tive·ly adv.
con′cen·tra′tor n.
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concentrative

(ˈkɒnsənˌtreɪtɪv)
adj
tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration
ˈconcenˌtratively adv
ˈconcenˌtrativeness n
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The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers.
To observe attentively is to remember distinctly; and, so far, the concentrative chess-player will do very well at whist; while the rules of Hoyle (themselves based upon the mere mechanism of the game) are sufficiently and generally comprehensible.
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ADO levels can be regulated by intracellular and extracellular mechanisms, through the action of (i) nucleoside transporters, namely, equilibrative nucleoside transporters (ENT1, ENT2, ENT3, and ENT4) and concentrative nucleoside transporters (CNT1, CNT2, and CNT3), that are able to transport ADO inside the cells [2, 11] and (ii) adenosine deaminase (ADA1 and ADA2), which is expressed by different cell populations and is able to convert ADO into inosine [12, 13].
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