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concursion

concursion noun: a sudden solidification.

Noun

concursion (countable and uncountable, plural concursions)

  1. (archaic) A sudden solidification.
    • For the Epicureans were forced to imagine so many and such various concursions of individual corpuscules in the immensity of space, so great a multitude of pre-existing orders of things before the present, and other similar delusions here enumerated […]1845, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe

Forms of concursion

pluralconcursions

Origin of concursion

From French concours, from Latin concursus, from concurrere (“to run together”). See concur.

Questions about concursion

What does concursion mean?
Concursion means a sudden solidification.
What part of speech is concursion?
Concursion is a noun.
What is the plural of concursion?
The plural of concursion is concursions.

Words near concursion in the dictionary

  1. concurring
  2. concurring opinion
  3. concurring opinions
  4. concurringly
  5. concurs
  6. concursion
  7. concursions
  8. concursus
  9. concurvity
  10. concuss
  11. concussed

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