different between congregation vs concentration

English

Etymology

From Old French congregacion, from Latin congreg?ti?, itself from congreg? (“to herd into a flock”). Adopted c. 1340, by the English Bible translator William Tyndale, to render the Ancient Greek ???????? (ekkl?sía, “those called together, (popular) meeting”) (hence Latin eccl?sia) in his New Testament, and preferred by 16th century Reformers instead of church.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k???????e???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k???????e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: con?gre?ga?tion

Noun

congregation (countable and uncountable, plural congregations)

1. The act of congregating or collecting together.
2. A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
3. A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.
4. A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
5. Any large gathering of people.
6. A group of eagles.
7. (Britain, Oxford University) The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.

Derived terms

• congregational
• congregationalism

Related terms

• congregant
• congregate
• congregator
• gregarious

Translations

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)