THINNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thinner mean? 

• THINNER (noun)
  The noun THINNER has 1 sense:

1. a diluting agent

  Familiarity information: THINNER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THINNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A diluting agent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

diluent; dilutant; thinner

Hypernyms ("thinner" is a kind of...):

agent (a substance that exerts some force or effect)

Derivation:

thin (lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture)

thin (make thin or thinner)

 Context examples 

If you have some kinds of heart or blood vessel disease, or if you have poor blood flow to your brain, your doctor may recommend that you take a blood thinner.

(Blood Thinners, NIH)

Treatments for blood clots include blood thinners and other medicines.

(Blood Clots, NIH)

This modest increase resulted in mitochondria that became thinner and more twisted than mitochondria in healthy heart cells.

(Excess Fat Disrupts Heart Cell's Energy System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Dornase alfa inhalation solution contains an enzyme that breaks the DNA in mucus into small pieces and makes the mucus thinner.

(Dornase alfa inhalation solution, NCI Dictionary)

To make something thinner, weaker, less concentrated, or less pure by adding something to it.

(Dilute, NCI Dictionary)

At the same time, it becomes thinner.

(Childbirth, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)

The crust below an undersea volcano is usually just four miles thick, roughly five times thinner than the crust that lies beneath land-based volcanoes.

(Underwater volcano's fiery eruption captured in detail by seafloor observatory, NSF)

This study does not prove that too much sitting causes thinner brain structures, but instead that more hours spent sitting are associated with thinner regions, researchers said.

(Sitting Is Bad for Your Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It struck me that he was looking even paler and thinner than usual.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This layer is about 20 silicon atoms thick, or 16,000 times thinner than a human hair.

(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)