Dictionary

concretion en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Borrowed from French concrétion, or Latin concretio.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass.
2. (countable, uncountable) A solid, hard mass formed by a process of aggregation or coalescence.
3. (countable, uncountable) A rounded mass of a mineral, sometimes found in sedimentary rock or on the ocean floor.
   • Of the three beds, the central one is the most compact, and more like ordinary sandstone: it includes numerous flattened spherical concretions. 1844, Charles Darwin, chapter 5, in Geological Observations on South America:
4. (countable, uncountable) The action of making something concrete or the result of such an action.
   • "My new statue!" said Kenyon. . . . "It is the concretion of a good deal of thought, emotion, and toil of brain and hand." 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 14, in The Marble Faun:

Forms

Deriveds

concretionary · bioconcretion · concretional · rhizoconcretion

Relateds

concrete

Translations (27)

ca concreció (petrology: rounded mass of a mineral) · ru конкреция (petrology: rounded mass of a mineral) · ru сгуще́ние (process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass) · cy concretiad (process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass) · fi kiveymä (solid, hard mass thus formed) · it concrezione (petrology: rounded mass of a mineral) · bg конкретизация (action of making something concrete or the result of such an action) · bg конкреция (petrology: rounded mass of a mineral) · mk сраснување (process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass) · es concreción (process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass) · fi kiveytyminen (process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass) · el λίθος (petrology: rounded mass of a mineral) · el συγκερασμός (process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass) · sv konkretion (solid, hard mass thus formed) · mk срасток (solid, hard mass thus formed) · gv co-aase (process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass) · ca concreció (process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass) · de Konkretion (solid, hard mass thus formed) · sv konkretion (action of making something concrete or the result of such an action) · ca concreció (action of making something concrete or the result of such an action) · bg слепване (process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass) · el σύμπηξη (action of making something concrete or the result of such an action) · fi konkreetio (petrology: rounded mass of a mineral) · fi konkretisoituminen (action of making something concrete or the result of such an action) · cy caregiad (process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass) · fi konkretisoiminen (action of making something concrete or the result of such an action) · bg срастване (process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass)