concretion
11Concretion — For other uses, see enterolith and nodule (geology). Septaria redirects here. For the genus of gastropods, see Septaria (gastropod). Concretions on Bowling Ball Beach (Mendocino County, California) weather out of steeply tilted Cenozoic mudstone… …
12CONCRÉTION — s. f. T. didactique. Action de s épaissir. La concrétion du lait, de l huile. Il signifie plus ordinairement, La réunion de plusieurs parties en un corps solide. Concrétion saline. Concrétion pierreuse. Il se dit quelquefois, en Chirurgie, de …
13CONCRÉTION — n. f. T. didactique Action de s’épaissir. La concrétion du lait, de l’huile. Il désigne plus ordinairement la Réunion de plusieurs parties en un corps solide. Concrétion saline. Concrétion pierreuse. Il se dit, en termes de Médecine, des… …
14concrétion — (kon kré sion ; en poésie, de quatre syllabes) s. f. 1° Action de s épaissir, de se solidifier. La concrétion du lait. 2° Agrégation de parties solides. Concrétion saline, pierreuse. Terme de médecine. Production de nouvelle formation,… …
15Concrétion — Une concrétion est la réunion de différents corps chimiques et physiques qui se solidifient ensemble. Les stalactites des grottes se forment par concrétion. L eau, chargée de dioxyde de carbone, dissout le calcaire des roches qu elle traverse et… …
16concretion — /kon kree sheuhn, kong /, n. 1. the act or process of concreting or becoming substantial; coalescence; solidification. 2. the state of being concreted. 3. a solid mass formed by or as if by coalescence or cohesion: a concretion of melted candies …
17concretion — 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… …
18concretion — noun a) The process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass. Of the three beds, the central one is the most compact, and more like ordinary sandstone: it includes numerous flattened spherical concretions. b) A solid, hard mass formed by a… …
19concretion — con•cre•tion [[t]kɒnˈkri ʃən, kɒŋ [/t]] n. 1) the act or process of concreting or becoming substantial; coalescence; solidification 2) the state of being concreted 3) a solid mass formed by or as if by coalescence or cohesion: a concretion of… …
20concretion — n. [L. cum, together; crescere, to grow] A massing together of parts or particles …
