Meanings
nounconcameration (plural concamerations)
plural concamerations
- An arch or vault, especially a system of interconnecting vaults
Once he looked at the vault above, but the entire concameration was completely and desolately empty of all save blackness and that westward-waning moon.
1927, Donald Wandrei, “A Fragment of a Dream”, in The Recluse, Athol, Mass.: W. Paul Cook, page twenty - biologyA chamber of a multilocular shell.
impossible concamerations
1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latinconcameratio
- Englishconcameration
Latin concameratio.
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