concentrated

adj 1: gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated

efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated

study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore" [ant: {distributed}]

2: of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced

3: (intensely focused) "her concentrated passion held them at

bay"

4: being the most concentrated solution possible at a given

temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance;

"a saturated solution" [syn: {saturated}] [ant: {unsaturated}]

5: reduced to a stronger or more concentrated form; "condensed

milk"; "concentrated sulfuric acid" [syn: {condensed}]

[ant: {uncondensed}]

concentrator

A device that combines the data streams from

many simultaneously active inputs into one shared channel in

such a way that the streams can be separated after

transmission. The concentrator's output bandwidth must be at

least as great as the total bandwidth of all simultaneously

active inputs. A concentrator is one kind of {multiplexing}

device.

For example, a concentrator may be used to connect 24 2400 bps

TTYs to a host via a 57600 bps channel.

(2000-03-01)