Consolidation

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Consolidation \Con*sol`i*da"tion\, n. [L. consolidatio a
     confirming: cf. F. consolidation.]
     1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or
        uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification;
        combination.
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              The consolidation of the marble and of the stone did
              not fall out at random.               --Woodward.
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              The consolidation of the great European monarchies.
                                                    --Hallam.
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     2. (Bot.) To organic cohesion of different circled in a
        flower; adnation.
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     3. (Law) The combination of several actions into one.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  consolidation
       n 1: combining into a solid mass
       2: the act of combining into an integral whole; "a
          consolidation of two corporations"; "after their
          consolidation the two bills were passed unanimously"; "the
          defendants asked for a consolidation of the actions
          against them" [syn: {integration}]
       3: something that has consolidated into a compact mass; "he
          dropped the consolidation into the acid bath"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  160 Moby Thesaurus words for "consolidation":
     Anschluss, abbreviation, accelerando, acceleration, accretion,
     addition, adherence, adhesion, affiliation, agglomeration,
     agglutination, aggravation, aggregation, alliance, amalgamation,
     assimilation, association, astriction, astringency, beefing-up,
     blend, blending, blowing up, blowup, bottleneck, cabal, cahoots,
     cartel, centralization, cervix, circumscription, cling, clinging,
     clotting, clumping, clustering, coadunation, coagulation,
     coalescence, coalition, coarctation, coherence, cohesion,
     cohesiveness, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality,
     combination, combine, combo, compactedness, compaction,
     composition, compression, compressure, comradeship, concentration,
     concretion, condensation, confederacy, confederation,
     confraternity, congealment, congelation, congeries, conglobation,
     conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, conspiracy, constriction,
     constringency, contraction, contracture, copartnership, copartnery,
     curtailment, decrease, deepening, densification, diminuendo,
     ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enhancement, enosis,
     exacerbation, exaggeration, explosion, federalization, federation,
     fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry,
     fusion, hardening, heating-up, heightening, hookup, hourglass,
     hourglass figure, inclusion, incorporation, information explosion,
     inseparability, integration, intensification, isthmus, junction,
     junta, knitting, league, magnification, marriage, meld, melding,
     mergence, merger, merging, narrow place, narrowing, neck, package,
     package deal, partnership, pickup, population explosion, puckering,
     pursing, redoubling, reduction, reinforcement, set, shortening,
     sodality, solidification, sorority, speedup, step-up, sticking,
     stranglement, strangulation, strengthening, striction, stricture,
     syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, systole, tie-in,
     tie-up, tightening, unification, union, wasp waist, wedding,
     wrinkling
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CONSOLIDATION, civil law. The union of the usufruct with the estate out of 
  which it issues, in the same person which happens when the usufructuary 
  acquires the estate, or vice versa. In either case the usufruct is extinct. 
  In the common law this is called a merger. Ley. El. Dr. Rom. 424. U. S. Dig. 
  tit. Actions, V. 
       2. Consolidation may take place in two ways: first, by the usufructuary 
  surrendering his right to the proprietor, which in the common law is called 
  a surrender; secondly, by the release of the. proprietor of his rights to 
  the usufructuary, which in our law is called a release.