"dilutory" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1901, Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, page 68:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2003, Mark Fecenko, Anita M. Huntley, E-commerce: Corporate-commercial Aspects, Markham, Ont.: LexisNexis Canada, page 394:",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
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          "ref": "2004, Finance Week:",
          "text": "[page 18:] Bruce says that decisions on empowerment - especially those that could dilute shareholder value - should be taken by shareholders and not the board. […] It could be argued that the potential buyer of the M&R stake in Unitrans would probably be reconsidering proposals faced with a potentially dilutory empowerment transaction.\n[page 20:] […] explain the strong shift upwards in Coronation shares, because the structuring of empowerment transactions can either be dilutory in terms of earnings growth or current shareholder valye.",
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          "ref": "2009, Vasant Gowariker, V. N. Krishnamurthy, Sudha Gowariker, Manik Dhanorkar, Kalyani Paranjape, The Fertilizer Encyclopedia, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 191:",
          "text": "But its presence may have a dilutory effect on another nutrient, leading to the greater uptake of the latter. Dilution effect is distinct from a negative effect since there is no adverse or harmful influence.",
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          "ref": "2017, Salvatore Fanali, Paul R. Haddad, Colin Poole, Marja-Liisa Riekkola, Liquid Chromatography: Fundamentals and Instrumentation, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 262:",
          "text": "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 […]",
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          "text": "[page 18:] Bruce says that decisions on empowerment - especially those that could dilute shareholder value - should be taken by shareholders and not the board. […] It could be argued that the potential buyer of the M&R stake in Unitrans would probably be reconsidering proposals faced with a potentially dilutory empowerment transaction.\n[page 20:] […] explain the strong shift upwards in Coronation shares, because the structuring of empowerment transactions can either be dilutory in terms of earnings growth or current shareholder valye.",
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          "text": "But its presence may have a dilutory effect on another nutrient, leading to the greater uptake of the latter. Dilution effect is distinct from a negative effect since there is no adverse or harmful influence.",
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