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dilutor

dilutor is the alternative form of diluter.

Meaning of diluter

Noun

diluter (plural diluters)

  1. A substance used for diluting.
    • Very little is prescribed in the Shops under this Intention, because the Kitchen so much better supplies all of this Kind, and furnishes the common Diluters, of which Sage Tea, Lemonade with a little Wine, and Wine and Water, are much the best […]1719, John Quincy, Pharmacopœia officinalis & extemporanea
  2. A device that adds a measured amount of sample to a measured amount of diluent.

Forms of dilutor

pluraldilutors

Questions about dilutor

What is dilutor the alternative form of?
Dilutor is the alternative form of diluter.

Words near dilutor in the dictionary

  1. dilutionist
  2. dilutionists
  3. dilutions
  4. dilutive
  5. dilutometry
  6. dilutor
  7. dilutors
  8. dilutory
  9. diluvia
  10. diluvial
  11. diluvialism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dilutor (page history and authors); diluter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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