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concentration

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In chemistry , concentration is the abundance of a constituent divided by the total volume of a mixture. Several types of mathematical description can be distinguished: mass concentration , molar concentration , number concentration , and volume concentration ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "action of bringing to a center," noun of action from verb concentrate (v.). Meaning "a mass so collected" is from 1670s; "continuous focus of mental activity" is from 1846.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dephlegmation \De`phleg*ma"tion\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]flegmation.] (Chem.) The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration , especially when acids are the subject of it.

Usage examples of concentration.

Keeping her concentration firmly centred in the falcon, she transferred her consciousness up a level to the etheric plane.

Niffa glanced around and saw the townsfolk staring at Admi with terrified concentration.

In the still-glowing afterwash of nuclear detonations, Tasia saw a greater concentration of the enemy than humans had ever faced before.

The anchorman, hooks in hand, stood at the prow, peering forward, tongue sticking out the side of his mouth in concentration.

Reason for high concentration of gravitational anomalies in and around center of winter storm system.

One had headed straight toward the concentration of anomalies, while the other had swerved off to the north and vanished in a small town.

Reichstag fire, the Roehm Blood Purge, the Anschluss with Austria, the surrender of Chamberlain at Munich, the occupation of Czechoslovakia, the attacks on Poland, Scandinavia, the West, the Balkans and Russia, the horrors of the Nazi occupation and of the concentration camps and the liquidation of the Jews.

Himmler and Heydrich also took advantage of their stay in Austria during the first weeks of the Anschluss to set up a huge concentration camp at Mauthausen, on the north bank of the Danube near Enns.

A patent ductus arteriosus makes a continuous shushing murmur, soft, but audible with a little concentration, particularly in the supraclavicular and cervical regions.

Geological Survey regularly finds alarming concentrations of atrazine in drinking water across the corn belt.

She had the ritual concentration of a Balinese dancer evoking postures handed down through the centuries.

It happened not only in her own house, where Matthew and her father paced the rooms at night without the concentration to read or even watch television, but all over Bedford, and it felt like a bubble of latent energy, suppressed for half a year, about to burst.

A heterogeneous collection of navigable balloons of all sizes and types gathered over the Bernese Oberland, crushed and burnt the twenty-five Swiss air-ships that unexpectedly resisted this concentration in the battle of the Alps, and then, leaving the Alpine glaciers and valleys strewn with strange wreckage, divided into two fleets and set itself to terrorise Berlin and destroy the Franconian Park, seeking to do this before the second air-fleet could be inflated.

I perform a similar form of mental concentration, one of my own devising, which combines the memory palace with elements of Chongg Ran, an ancient Bhutanese form of meditation.

As she formed the first letter, all the bibliophages stopped moving, and everyone felt their sudden focus and concentration.