HOW TO PRONOUNCE
consolidation
/kənˌsɑləˈdeɪʃən/
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kun-sol-ih-DAY-shun: DAY is the strongest syllable.
Give SOL a smaller beat. The last part has a long a followed by “shun,” while the earlier unstressed vowels stay short.
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“The consolidation brought three offices under one roof.”
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noun
- The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated.
- The combination of several actions into one.
- 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.
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noun
- A steam locomotive of the 2-8-0 wheel arrangement, first built in the United States in 1866.
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IPA pronunciation
/kənˌsɑləˈdeɪʃən/
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A distinction, more subtle than accurate, has been raised between a CONFEDERACY and a CONSOLIDATION of the States.
METAMORPHIC ROCKS.—Sedimentary rocks which have undergone alteration, generally by the action of heat, subsequently to their deposition and consolidation.
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The difficulties which attend the consolidation of its independence rather augment than diminish with the increasing enlightenment of the people.
They are owned by the De Beers Company, a consolidation of diamond properties arranged by Mr. Rhodes twelve or fourteen years ago.
He had been a manufacturer of electrical apparatus in Indianapolis, until Vail's policy of consolidation drew him into the central group of pioneers and pathfinders.