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dilutory

dilutory adjective: having the effect of diluting.

Adjective

dilutory

  1. Having the effect of diluting.
    • The dilutory medium used was either bouillon or normal saline in a dilution of 1 in 30. There were always three to six observations going on, so a check was thus established.1901, Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, page 68
    • […] paid for additional equity and hence substantially dilute the other investors, including the founders, if exercised. It may also make potential investors reticent to invest given its potentially devastating dilutory effect.2003, Mark Fecenko, Anita M. Huntley, E-commerce: Corporate-commercial Aspects, Markham, Ont.: LexisNexis Canada, page 394

Examples of dilutory in a sentence

  • But its presence may have a dilutory effect on another nutrient, leading to the greater uptake of the latter.2009, Vasant Gowariker, V. N. Krishnamurthy, Sudha Gowariker, Manik Dhanorkar, Kalyani Paranjape, The Fertilizer Encyclopedia, John Wiley &...
  • Given the dilute nature of the solutions being analyzed, and the additional dilutory effects of a chromatographic experiment, the approximation A₂ ≈ 0 can often be made so that […]2017, Salvatore Fanali, Paul R. Haddad, Colin Poole, Marja-Liisa Riekkola, Liquid Chromatography: Fundamentals and Instrumentation...

Questions about dilutory

What does dilutory mean?
Dilutory means having the effect of diluting.
How do you use dilutory in a sentence?
But its presence may have a dilutory effect on another nutrient, leading to the greater uptake of the latter.
What part of speech is dilutory?
Dilutory is an adjective.

Words near dilutory in the dictionary

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

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