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The process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A solid, hard mass formed by a process of aggregation or coalescence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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A rounded mass of a mineral, sometimes found in sedimentary rock or on the ocean floor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences, petrology
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The action of making something concrete or the result of such an action.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, conglutination
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure
an increase in the density of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: compaction, compression, densification
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: concentration
a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- renal calculi can be very painful
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: calculus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rock, stone
Narrower terms: bladder stone, cystolith, enterolith, gallstone, bilestone, kidney stone, urinary calculus, nephrolith, renal calculus, ptyalith, sialolith, salivary calculus, urolith
the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: natural process, natural action, action, activity
Borrowed from French concrétion, or Latin concretio.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
слепване
(slepvane)
— process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
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Bulgarian:
срастване
(srastvane)
— process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
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Catalan:
concreció
— process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
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Finnish:
kiveytyminen
— process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
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Greek:
συγκερασμός
(sygkerasmós)
— process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
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Macedonian:
сраснување
(srasnuvanje)
— process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
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Manx:
co-aase
— process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
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Russian:
сгуще́ние
(sguščénije)
— process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
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Spanish:
concreción
— process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
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Welsh:
concretiad
— process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
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Welsh:
caregiad
— process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
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Finnish:
kiveymä
— solid, hard mass thus formed
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German:
Konkretion
— solid, hard mass thus formed
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Macedonian:
срасток
(srastok)
— solid, hard mass thus formed
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Swedish:
konkretion
— solid, hard mass thus formed
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Bulgarian:
конкреция
(konkrecija)
— petrology: rounded mass of a mineral
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Catalan:
concreció
— petrology: rounded mass of a mineral
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Finnish:
konkreetio
— petrology: rounded mass of a mineral
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Greek:
λίθος
(líthos)
— petrology: rounded mass of a mineral
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Italian:
concrezione
— petrology: rounded mass of a mineral
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Russian:
конкреция
(konkrecija)
— petrology: rounded mass of a mineral
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Bulgarian:
конкретизация
(konkretizacija)
— action of making something concrete or the result of such an action
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Catalan:
concreció
— action of making something concrete or the result of such an action
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Finnish:
konkretisoiminen
— action of making something concrete or the result of such an action
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Finnish:
konkretisoituminen
— action of making something concrete or the result of such an action
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Greek:
σύμπηξη
(sýmpixi)
— action of making something concrete or the result of such an action
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Swedish:
konkretion
— action of making something concrete or the result of such an action