Noun

(countable) Something small enough to escape casual notice.

(uncountable) A profusion of details.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)

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Something considered trivial enough to ignore.

(countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.

(military) A temporary unit or assignment.

A part distinct from the whole.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

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A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.

Noun

(uncountable) The process of concretizing]] a general principle or idea by delineating, [[particularize, particularizing, or exemplifying it.

* 1934 , J. Tinbergen, "Annual Survey of Significant Developments in General Economic Theory," Econometrica , vol. 2, no. 1, p. 25:

There are certain fields in general economics that are at present not so much in need of a broadening of the theoretical basis as in need of a minute working-out and concretization .

* 1961 , H. Kelsen, General Theory of Law and State , p. 237:

[Law] proceeds from the general (abstract) to the individual (particular); it is a process of increasing individualization and concretization .

(countable) Something specific which is the result of a process of concretizing a general principle or idea.

* 1979 , Trudy Scott, "Stuart Sherman's Singular Spectacles," The Drama Review: TDR , vol. 23, no. 1, p. 75:

This movement gave Sherman his first image—a roller skate—a concretization of pure motion.

* 1993 , Lubomír Doležel, "Semiotic Poetics of the Prague School," in Irene Rima Makaryk (ed.) Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms , ISBN 9780802068606, p. 182 (Google preview):

Vodicka's reception history is an empirical study of the post-genesis fortunes of literary works as attested in recorded concretizations (diaries, memoirs, letters, critical reviews, and essays).

(uncountable, medicine, psychology) An inability to generalize or perform abstraction accompanied by excessive concentration on specific details, as in a mental disorder or in cognition by children.

* 1969 , E. Drage and B. Lange, "Ethical Considerations in the Use of Patients for Demonstration," The American Journal of Nursing , vol. 69, no. 10, p. 2165:

Another [patient] commented on the fact that the consultant had referred to two of them as "boys" in the demonstration. The concretization of a schizophrenic is exemplified here. One man thought this word meant that the consultant, in order "to keep things on the level of boy-girl, wanted everyone else to consider her as a girl, so the boys and girls could communicate."