| 单词 | concretion |
| 释义 | concretion (once / 13808 pages) n WORD FAMILY concretion: concretions+/concrete: concreted, concretely, concreteness, concretes, concreting, concretion, concretise, concretism, concretize/concreteness: concretenesses/concretise: concretised/concretism: concretistic/concretize: concretized, concretizing USAGE EXAMPLESThe process, known as concretion, is estimated to have happened up to 5 million years ago. US News(Jun 03, 2016) And the dolomite cemented the sediment particles in place, forming concretions. New York Times(Jun 02, 2016) Its reaction with oxidizing methane created a kind of natural cement, in a process called concretion. The Guardian(Jun 02, 2016) 1n the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts Syn|Hyper coalescence, coalescency, coalition, conglutination conjugation, jointure, unification, union, uniting the act of making or becoming a single unit 2n the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys) Hyper action, activity, natural action, natural process a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) 3n a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body Syn|Hypo|Hyper calculus bladder stone, cystolith a calculus formed in the bladder enterolitha calculus occurring in the intestines bilestone, gallstonea calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts kidney stone, nephrolith, renal calculus, urinary calculusa calculus formed in the kidney ptyalithcalculus in a salivary gland salivary calculus, sialolitha stone formed in the salivary gland urolitha urinary stone rock, stone a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter 4n an increase in the density of something Syn|Hyper compaction, compression, densification concentration increase in density |
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