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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)

1. The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
   1. The direction of attention to a specific object.
   2. The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
   3. 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.
2. A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
3. The proportion of a substance in a whole.
   1. (chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))
4. 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)

1. concentration (mental state of being concentrated)
2. 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)

1. concentration (state or degree of being concentrated)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????k??/
• Hyphenation: think?ing
• Rhymes: -??k??
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English thinking, thynkynge, thenkyng, equivalent to think +? -ing.

Noun

thinking (usually uncountable, plural thinkings)

1. Thought; gerund of think.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• quick-thinking
• thinking cap
• thinking man

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English thenkinge, þinkynge, þenkynge, þenchinde, from Old English þen?ende, from Proto-Germanic *þankijandz, present participle of *þankijan? (“to think”), equivalent to think +? -ing. Cognate with Dutch denkend (“thinking”), German denkend (“thinking”), Swedish tänkande (“thinking”).

Verb

thinking

1. present participle of think