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concameration

concameration noun: an arch or vault, especially a system of interconnecting vaults.

Noun

concameration (plural concamerations)

  1. 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
  2. A chamber of a multilocular shell.
    • impossible concamerations1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC

Forms of concameration

pluralconcamerations

Origin of concameration

Latin concameratio.

Questions about concameration

What does concameration mean?
Concameration means an arch or vault, especially a system of interconnecting vaults.
What part of speech is concameration?
Concameration is a noun.
What is the plural of concameration?
The plural of concameration is concamerations.

Words near concameration in the dictionary

  1. CONCACAF
  2. concamerate
  3. concamerated
  4. concamerates
  5. concamerating
  6. concameration
  7. concamerations
  8. Concan
  9. concanamycin
  10. concanamycins
  11. concanavalin

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