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ing, flowing, or running together; confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale.

A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay.

Pertaining to, or formed by, concretion or aggregation; producing or containing concretions.

A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain.

ty, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene. Condensation product (Chem.), a substance obtained by the polymerization of one substance, or by the union of two or more, with or without separation of some unimportant side products. -- Surface condensation, the system of condensing steam b…

or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.

An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.

The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

rfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyperas, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.

A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoöspores.

A crisis produced by a combination of circumstances; complication or combination of events or circumstances; plight resulting from various conditions. He [Chesterfield] had recently governed Ireland, at a momentous conjuncture, with eminent firmness, wisdom, and humanity. Macaulay.

The common birth of two or more at the same tome; production of two or more together. Johnson.

Born together; produced at the same time. Craig.

Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.

That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result. Shun to taste, And shun the bitter consequence. Milton.

Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.

To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effet; as, a constrained voice.

ures, etc.; -- called also consumption goods, or goods of the first order, and opposed to producer's goods.

That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.