Concentrator

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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In data transmission, a concentrator is a functional unit that permits a common path to handle more data sources than there are channels currently available within the path. A device that connects a number of circuits, which are not all used at once, to a smaller group of circuits for economy.

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Concentrators
possessive: Concentrator's
pluralpossessive: Concentrators'

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