concretion
the act or process of concreting or becoming substantial; coalescence; solidification.
the state of being concreted.
a solid mass formed by or as if by coalescence or cohesion: a concretion of melted candies.
anything that is made real, tangible, or particular.
Pathology. a solid or calcified mass in the body formed by a disease process.
Geology. a rounded mass of mineral matter occurring in sandstone, clay, etc., often in concentric layers about a nucleus.
Origin of concretion
1Words Nearby concretion
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use concretion in a sentence
Most concretions in other fossil beds have no fossils or fossils that are just bones and hard parts, but “Mazon Creek has really good, soft-tissue preservation inside these concretions,” she says.
How fossilization preserved a 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab’s brain | Rebecca Dzombak | August 20, 2021 | Science NewsWhile we don’t completely understand how concretions form, all the evidence so far is that it’s the concretion itself that is the preservation force keeping things from decaying away.
How fossilization preserved a 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab’s brain | Rebecca Dzombak | August 20, 2021 | Science NewsThat’s because the concretions there are partly made of an iron-carbonate mineral called siderite that only forms in low-oxygen environments.
How fossilization preserved a 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab’s brain | Rebecca Dzombak | August 20, 2021 | Science NewsFossils from this deposit are preserved within concretions made of an iron carbonate mineral called siderite.
Ancient Brains: Inside the Extraordinary Preservation of a 310-Million-Year-Old Nervous System | John Paterson | July 30, 2021 | Singularity HubA concretion of rounded quartz pebbles, cemented by ferruginous matter, apparently of recent formation.
In the first place, what common element is there in matter, form, and the concretion of matter and form?
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)Phleb′olite, a calcareous concretion found in a vein; Phlebol′ogy, science of the veins; Phleb′orrhage, venous hemorrhage.
Again, The concretion of Ice will not endure a dry attrition without liquation; for if it be rubbed long with a cloth, it melteth.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne (Volume 1 of 3) | Thomas BrowneAnd many bodies will coagulate upon commixture, whose separated natures promise no concretion.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne (Volume 1 of 3) | Thomas Browne
British Dictionary definitions for concretion
/ (kənˈkriːʃən) /
the act or process of coming or growing together; coalescence
a solid or solidified mass
something made real, tangible, or specific
any of various rounded or irregular mineral masses formed by chemical precipitation around a nucleus, such as a bone or shell, that is different in composition from the sedimentary rock that surrounds it
pathol another word for calculus
Derived forms of concretion
- concretionary, adjective
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse