1. past tense of elute; to wash out or extract (a substance) from a material by passing a solvent through it, especially in chromatography.
Usage: technical; chemistry

Examples

• The scientist eluted the protein from the column using a salt solution.
• After the chromatography run, the dye was eluted with ethanol.
• The sample was eluted slowly to ensure complete separation.
• They eluted the compounds in order of increasing polarity.
• The resin was eluted to recover the bound molecules.