consolidation

From Latin cōnsolidātiō, cōnsolidātiōnem, from cōnsolidō.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˌsɒlɪˈdeɪʃ(ə)n/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˌsɑləˈdeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

consolidation (countable and uncountable, plural consolidations)

1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated.

   Synonyms: solidification, combination

2. The combination of several actions into one.
3. (medicine) A solidification into a firm dense mass. It is usually applied to induration (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung.
   • 2015 May 21, Vincenzo Basile et al., “Lung ultrasound: a useful tool in diagnosis and management of bronchiolitis”, in BMC Pediatrics‎^[1], volume 15, →DOI:

     The areas of lung dysventilation with an absence of alveolar air are visualized in the form of consolidations adjacent to the pleural line.

   • 2015 November 17, “Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex”, in PLOS ONE‎^[2], →DOI:

     These included multilobular consolidation with histiological lesions of bronchiolitis with epithelial necrosis and syncytia [14 ].

• (The act of uniting by combination): defragmentation

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsolidātiō. By surface analysis, consolider +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɔ.li.da.sjɔ̃/

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consolidation f (plural consolidations)

1. consolidation
2. strengthening, reinforcement

• “consolidation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.