Definitions for concretion

concretion con·cre·tion

Spelling: [kon-kree-shuh n, kong-]
IPA: /kɒnˈkri ʃən, kɒŋ-/

Concretion is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 377 anagrams from letters in concretion (cceinnoort).

Definitions for concretion

noun

  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:
  4. anything that is made real, tangible, or particular.
  5. Pathology. a solid or calcified mass in the body formed by a disease process.
  6. Geology. a rounded mass of mineral matter occurring in sandstone, clay, etc., often in concentric layers about a nucleus.

Origin of concretion

First recorded in 1535-45, concretion is from the Latin word concrētiōn- (stem of concrētiō). See concrete, -ion

Examples for concretion

Crab's′-eyes, the scarlet seeds of an East Indian bead-tree: a concretion of carbonate of lime in the stomach of the cray-fish.

Again, The concretion of Ice will not endure a dry attrition without liquation; for if it be rubbed long with a cloth, it melteth.

De Brosses was well aware that heathen religions were a complex mass, a concretion of many materials.

When largely deposited in joints an abscess sometimes forms, the skin gives way, and the concretion is exposed.

It is little more than a concretion of compact basaltic rock, with slight traces of art.

Thirdly, the concretion in the body of various juices, turbid vapours, and dense humours is the last provocative of sickness.

The rock is not one mass of stone, but a concretion of pebbles and earth, so firm that it does not appear to have mouldered.

Philanthropy (and indeed every other virtue) is a thing of concretion.

Instead of smooth facets and sharp angles, the concretion may be studded with irregularly-shaped masses.

And many bodies will coagulate upon commixture, whose separated natures promise no concretion.

Word Value for concretion
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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