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di·lute

 (dī-lo͞ot′, dĭ-)
tr.v. di·lut·ed, di·lut·ing, di·lutes
1. To make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water.
2. To lessen the force, strength, purity, or brilliance of, especially by admixture.
3. To decrease the value of (shares of stock) by increasing the total number of shares.
adj.
Weakened; diluted.

[Latin dīluere, dīlūt- : dī-, dis-, apart, away; see dis- + -luere, to wash (from lavere; see leu(ə)- in Indo-European roots).]

di·lut′er, di·lut′or n.
di·lu′tive adj.
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dilutor

(daɪˈluːtə; daɪˈljuːtə)
n
a device that dilutes something, such as a fitting on a garden hose or part of an industrial machine
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Sperm concentration (million/mL) was determined by using a digital photometer with auto dilutor (SMILE software, IMV Technologies, Paris, France).
The possible reasons of this uncertainty may be one or more than one of the following factors: (i) the condensation of high concentrated and temperature exhaust, (ii) reduction in pressure of high effective particle air (HEPA), (iii) preheating of primary dilutor to a temperature less than 195[degrees]C, (iv) variation in dilution ratio, (v) any problem in charging and collection mechanisms i.e., mishandling during particle charging, (vi) wrong inertial classification in a cascade impactor and (vii) the electrical detection of aerosol particles, etc.
The dilutor BTS (Beltsville Thawing Solution[R]), used in swine sperm, has been successfully used in cryopreserving fish sperm (FELIZARDO et al., 2010).
Sections were then incubated with Alexa Fluor 594-labeled goat anti-rabbit and FITC-labeled rabbit anti-rat secondary antibodies IgG at 1/100 dilutor for 2 hrs at RT.
El hematocrito (Hto) se determino por centrifugacion a 12000g durante 5 minutos, la concentracion de hemoglobina (Hb) por el metodo de cianometahemoglobina de Drabkin y los recuentos celulares en camara de Neubauer utilizando la solucion de Natt-Herrick como liquido dilutor (Fudge 2000).
BHF acted as a dilutor and lowered the interaction of the molecules; thus the tensile strength decreased.