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concentration
English
Etymology
concentrate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?ns?n?t?e???n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?ns?n?t?e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
concentration (usually uncountable, plural concentrations)
- The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
- The direction of attention to a specific object.
- The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
- The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
- A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
- The proportion of a substance in a whole.
- (chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))
- The matching game pelmanism.
Coordinate terms
- (course of study): major, minor
Translations
See also
- salinity
Further reading
- Concentration (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Concentration (chemistry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
First attested 1732 concentrer +? -ation.
Pronunciation
Noun
concentration f (plural concentrations)
- concentration (mental state of being concentrated)
- concentration (quality of being concentrated)
Derived terms
- camp de concentration
Further reading
- “concentration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
Noun
concentration (plural concentrationes)
- concentration (state or degree of being concentrated)
concentration From the web:
- what concentration gradient powers atp
- what concentration camps were in germany
- what concentration camp was anne frank sent to
- what concentration camp was in band of brothers
- what concentration camp killed the most
- what concentration camps were in poland
- what concentration camp was the worst
- what concentration of bleach to kill mold
preoccupation
English
Alternative forms
- pre-occupation
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French préoccupation, from Latin praeoccupati?. Synchronically analyzable as pre- +? occupation or preoccupy +? -ation
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
preoccupation (countable and uncountable, plural preoccupations)
- The state of being preoccupied or an idea that preoccupies the mind; enthrallment.
- The act of occupying something before someone else.
Synonyms
- preoccupancy
Related terms
- preoccupy
- occupation
Translations
preoccupation From the web:
- what's preoccupation mean
- what does preoccupation mean
- what is preoccupation in literature
- what is preoccupation with failure
- what is preoccupation with death
- pre occupational therapy
- what's thematic preoccupation
- what is preoccupation with body wastes
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