Noun

(en noun)

A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.

The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.

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A venereal infection.

* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 382:

It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful.

Noun

(en-noun)

The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.

# The direction of attention to a specific object.

# The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.

# The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.

A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.

The proportion of a substance in a whole.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell, magazine=(American Scientist)

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# (chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))

The matching game pelmanism.