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concretion

noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

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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3

noun

Meaning 3

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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4

noun

Meaning 4

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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5

noun

Meaning 5

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

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noun

Meaning 6

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

7

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Meaning 7

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

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noun

Meaning 8

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

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: natural process, natural action, action, activity

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French concrétion, or Latin concretio.

Across languages

Translations

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: слепване (slepvane) — process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
  • Bulgarian: срастване (srastvane) — process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
  • Catalan: concreció — process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
  • Finnish: kiveytyminen — process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
  • Greek: συγκερασμός (sygkerasmós) — process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
  • Macedonian: сраснување (srasnuvanje) — process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
  • Manx: co-aase — process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
  • Russian: сгуще́ние (sguščénije) — process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
  • Spanish: concreción — process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
  • Welsh: concretiad — process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
  • Welsh: caregiad — process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass
  • Finnish: kiveymä — solid, hard mass thus formed
  • German: Konkretion — solid, hard mass thus formed
  • Macedonian: срасток (srastok) — solid, hard mass thus formed
  • Swedish: konkretion — solid, hard mass thus formed
  • Bulgarian: конкреция (konkrecija) — petrology: rounded mass of a mineral
  • Catalan: concreció — petrology: rounded mass of a mineral
  • Finnish: konkreetio — petrology: rounded mass of a mineral
  • Greek: λίθος (líthos) — petrology: rounded mass of a mineral
  • Italian: concrezione — petrology: rounded mass of a mineral
  • Russian: конкреция (konkrecija) — petrology: rounded mass of a mineral
  • Bulgarian: конкретизация (konkretizacija) — action of making something concrete or the result of such an action
  • Catalan: concreció — action of making something concrete or the result of such an action
  • Finnish: konkretisoiminen — action of making something concrete or the result of such an action
  • Finnish: konkretisoituminen — action of making something concrete or the result of such an action
  • Greek: σύμπηξη (sýmpixi) — action of making something concrete or the result of such an action
  • Swedish: konkretion — action of making something concrete or the result of such an action