consolidation

plural consolidations

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

   At this time also, what remained of independent Soviet culture and the intelligentsia was systematically destroyed: the regime was entering the phase of final consolidation.

   1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 43

   Synonyms: solidification, combination

2. countableuncountableThe combination of several actions into one.
3. countableuncountablemedicineA solidification into a firm dense mass. It is usually applied to induration (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung.

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

   2015 November 17, “Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

   1 more example

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

   2015 May 21, Vincenzo Basile et al., “Lung ultrasound: a useful tool in diagnosis and management of bronchiolitis”, in BMC Pediatrics, volume 15, →DOI

plural Consolidations

1. rail transportA steam locomotive of the 2-8-0 wheel arrangement, first built in the United States in 1866.

   W.D. 2-8-0s have replaced Gresley Consolidations to a great extent on mineral and slow freight trains.

   1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 45