DILUTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diluted mean? 

• DILUTED (adjective)
  The adjective DILUTED has 1 sense:

1. reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity

  Familiarity information: DILUTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DILUTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity

Synonyms:

dilute; diluted

Context example:

dilute acetic acid

Similar:

cut; thinned; weakened (mixed with water)

washy; watery; weak (overly diluted; thin and insipid)

white ((of coffee) having cream or milk added)

Antonym:

undiluted (not diluted)

 Context examples 

A liquid preparation of increased strength and reduced volume which is usually diluted prior to administration.

(Concentrated Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A solution or suspension composed of active and/or inert ingredient(s) with increased strength in a reduced volume, which is usually diluted prior to administration.

(Concentrated Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

A concentrate which is usually diluted prior to administration by injection.

(Concentrated Injectable Solution Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

Intravenously administered drug is diluted in the pooled venous blood and pumped through lungs before entering systematic circulation (lung first-pass effect).

(Intravenous infusion, NCI Thesaurus)

Fresh lachesis is diluted in alcohol to obtain the mother tincture.

(Lachesis Venom, NCI Thesaurus)

This causes the more concentrated solution to become diluted, and makes the concentrations in both solutions more equal.

(Osmosis, NCI Dictionary)

A highly diluted solution of sodium hypochlorite (0.5% w/v) with topical anti-infective activity.

(Dakins Solution, NCI Thesaurus)

A concentrate which is usually diluted prior to administration and exists as a solution in its final form.

(Concentrated Solution Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

A screening assay for circulating complement proteins in which diluted serum samples are added to antibody-coated erythrocytes and the percentage of cell lysis is measured.

(Complement Hemolytic Activity Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

For example, if a pinhead-sized sample of brain tissue from an Alzheimer’s patient were pulverized and diluted into a thousand gallons of liquid, the test still could detect tau seeds in a pinhead-sized volume of that dilution.

(New test detects protein associated with Alzheimer’s and CTE, National Institutes of Health)