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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONCRETION, n.
1. The act of concreting; the process by which soft or fluid bodies become thick, consistent, solid or hard; the act of growing together, or of uniting, by other natural process, the small particles of matter into a mass.
2. The mass or solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation or induration; a clot; a lump; a solid substance formed in the soft parts or in the cavities of animal bodies.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys)
2: a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body; "renal calculi can be very painful" [syn: calculus, concretion]
3: an increase in the density of something [syn: compaction, compression, concretion, densification]
4: the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts [syn: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1541 1. something concreted: as a. a hard usually inorganic mass (as a bezoar or tophus) formed in a living body b. a mass of mineral matter found generally in rock of a composition different from its own and produced by deposition from aqueous solution in the rock 2. the act or process of concreting ; the state of being concreted <concretion of ideas in a hypothesis> • concretionary adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a a hard solid concreted mass. b the forming of this by coalescence. 2 Med. a stony mass formed within the body. 3 Geol. a small round mass of rock particles embedded in limestone or clay. Derivatives: concretionary adj. Etymology: F f. L concretio (as concrete)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Concretion Con*cre"tion, n. [L. concretio.] 1. The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Solidification. 2. Concreted mass, calculus. 3. Concrete, mixture, admixture, firm combination, compound, complex.