TITRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does titrate mean? 

• TITRATE (verb)
  The verb TITRATE has 1 sense:

1. measure by (the volume or concentration of solutions) by titration

  Familiarity information: TITRATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TITRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they titrate    ... he / she / it titrates   
Past simple: titrated   
Past participle: titrated   
-ing form: titrating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Measure by (the volume or concentration of solutions) by titration

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "titrate" is one way to...):

measure; quantify (express as a number or measure or quantity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

titration (a measured amount of a solution of unknown concentration is added to a known volume of a second solution until the reaction between them is just complete; the concentration of the unknown solution (the titer) can then be calculated)

titrator (an apparatus for performing a titration)

titre (the concentration of a solution as determined by titration)