concretion
/kɑnˈkriʃən/
noun
- A hard, solid mass formed by the gathering together of particles or material, especially in rock or soil.
- The cave floor was covered with small concretions of calcium carbonate.
- Geologists found a round concretion of ironstone in the desert.
- Some fossils are preserved inside concretions that formed around them millions of years ago.
- The process of forming into a solid mass; the act of becoming concrete or tangible.
- The concretion of the wet sand into hard sandstone took thousands of years.
- The concretion of the team's ideas into a final design required many meetings.
- In philosophy, concretion refers to the process of an abstract idea becoming a real thing.
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