overconcentration

noun

1. the act of concentrating; the state of being concentrated.
2. exclusive attention to one object; close mental application.
3. something concentrated: a concentration of stars.
4. Military.
   1. the assembling of military or naval forces in a particular area in preparation for further operations.
   2. a specified intensity and duration of artillery fire placed on a small area.
5. the focusing of a student’s academic program on advanced study in a specific subject or field.
6. Chemistry. (in a solution) a measure of the amount of dissolved substance contained per unit of volume.
7. Also called memory. Cards. a game in which all 52 cards are spread out face down on the table and each player in turn exposes two cards at a time and replaces them face down if they do not constitute a pair, the object being to take the most pairs by remembering the location of the cards previously exposed.

noun

1. intense mental application; complete attention
2. the act or process of concentrating
3. something that is concentrated
4. the strength of a solution, esp the amount of dissolved substance in a given volume of solvent, usually expressed in moles per cubic metre or cubic decimetre (litre)Symbol: c
5. the process of increasing the concentration of a solution
6. military
   1. the act of bringing together military forces
   2. the application of fire from a number of weapons against a target
7. economics the degree to which the output or employment in an industry is accounted for by only a few firms
8. another name (esp US) for Pelmanism

n.1630s, “action of bringing to a center,” noun of action from verb concentrate (v.). Meaning “a mass so collected” is from 1670s; “continuous focus of mental activity” is from 1846. n.

1. An increase of the strength of a pharmaceutical preparation by the extraction, precipitation, and drying of its crude active agent.
2. An increase in the strength of a fluid or gas in a mixture by purification, evaporation, or diffusion.
3. The amount of a specified substance in a unit amount of another substance.

1. The amount of a particular substance in a given amount of another substance, especially a solution or mixture.