Consolidation vs Cement - What's the difference?
consolidation | cement |
The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.
The combination of several actions into one.
(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.
(label) A powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water.
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, title= (uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water.
(label) Any material with strong adhesive properties.
(label) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.
(label) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.
To affix with cement.
To overlay or coat with cement.
(figurative) To unite firmly or closely.
(figuratively) To make permanent.
* "But friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit;" David Hume,
As nouns the difference between consolidation and cement
is that consolidation is the act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination while cement is (label) a powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water.As a verb cement is
to affix with cement.consolidation
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Noun
(en noun)Coordinate terms
*(The act of uniting by combination) defragmentationcement
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(wikipedia cement)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
Derived terms
* Keene's cement * masonry cement * Portland cementSee also
* concreteVerb
(en verb)- to cement a cellar bottom
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