Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of concreting into a mass; coalescence.
- noun The state of having been concreted.
- noun A solid hard mass.
- noun Geology A rounded mass of mineral matter found in sedimentary rock.
- noun Medicine A solid mass, usually composed of inorganic material, formed in a cavity or tissue of the body; a calculus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In old chem., reduction of a liquid to a solid, commonly by partial evaporation.
- noun The act of growing together or becoming united in one mass; concrescence; coalescence.
- noun A mass of solid matter formed by a growing together, or by congelation, condensation, coagulation, conglomeration, or induration; a clot; a lump; a nodule: as, “concretions of slime,”
- noun Specifically In geology, an aggregation of mineral matter, usually calcareous or silicious, in concentric layers, so arranged as to give rise to a form approaching the spherical, but often much flattened.
- noun In logic: The state of being concrete; concreteness.
- noun The act of determination, or of rendering a concept more concrete or determinate by adding to the marks it contains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.
- noun A mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus.
- noun (Geol.) A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process of
aggregating orcoalescing into amass . - noun A
solid ,hard mass formed by a process ofaggregation orcoalescence . - noun geology A
rounded mass of amineral , sometimes found insedimentary rock or on theocean floor . - noun The
action of making somethingconcrete or theresult of such an action.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an increase in the density of something
- noun the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys)
- noun the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts
- noun a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body
Etymologies
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Examples
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Coquina, of which the fort is built, is a kind of concretion of shell-fragments, often very beautiful.
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Draw it off by piercing the lower part of the cask, and let it run till the concretion which is formed at the top, and is termed "mother of vinegar," begins to appear.
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Most likely the structure is a sandy "concretion" that formed after the critter died, says the study.
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The generation of deep import, of a notion and an affective response, does involve a concretion of all that surface import into a coherent unity.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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It was covered with concretion — a mixture of shells, sand and other debris attracted by the leaching wrought iron — and a few sea squirts.
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It was covered with concretion — a mixture of shells, sand and other debris attracted by the leaching wrought iron — and a few sea squirts.
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It was covered with concretion — a mixture of shells, sand and other debris attracted by the leaching wrought iron — and a few sea squirts.
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"In a Hydropicall body ten years buried in a Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castle-soap: wherof part remaineth with us."
Archive 2009-06-01 Heather McDougal 2009
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The generation of deep import, of a notion and an affective response, does involve a concretion of all that surface import into a coherent unity.
Notes on Notes Hal Duncan 2009
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It was covered with concretion — a mixture of shells, sand and other debris attracted by the leaching wrought iron — and a few sea squirts.
treeseed commented on the word concretion
Lake Superior concretions are really beautiful. Most of them are spheroid or like a grouping of spheres. Most have concentric rings on their surface.
February 11, 2008