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Concentration   /kˌɑnsəntrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Concentration

noun
1.
The strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume.
2.
The spatial property of being crowded together.  Synonyms: compactness, denseness, density, tightness.  Antonym: distribution.
3.
Strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material.  Antonym: dilution.
4.
Increase in density.
5.
Complete attention; intense mental effort.  Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, immersion.
6.
Bringing together military forces.
7.
Great and constant diligence and attention.  Synonyms: assiduity, assiduousness.



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"Concentration" Quotes from Famous Books



... was then applied to his works, and identified with them. The main features of his character were, in my apprehension, fearlessness, kindliness, a decision that sometimes made him seem somewhat arbitrary, and condensation or concentration. He was wonderfully self-reliant. These moral qualities, guiding an artistic temperament as exquisite as was ever bestowed on man, made him what he was, the greatest inventor of abstract beauty, both in form and colour, that ...
— Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1883 • T. Hall Caine

... a constitutional attorney, he was at least constitutionally one. Falling helplessly in love with one girl simplifies matters. There are no distracting pros and cons— nothing required but a concentration of faculties to win the enslaver, and so achieve mastery. Marstern did not appear amenable to the subtle influences which blind the eyes and dethrone reason, inspiring in its place an overwhelming impulse to capture a fortuitous girl because (to a ...
— Taken Alive • E. P. Roe

... be practically unknown in England. Mr. Lawson is a less experienced writer than Mr. Kipling, and more unequal, but there are two or three sketches in this volume which for vigour and truth can hold their own with even so great a rival. Both men have somehow gained that power of concentration which by a few strong strokes can set place and people before you ...
— In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses • Henry Lawson

... back, surveying the cracks in the ceiling and considering this matter further with the lucidity that early morning often brings to an acute intelligence. You are to remember that for close upon two months now the sword had been Andre-Louis' daily exercise and almost hourly thought. Protracted concentration upon the subject was giving him an extraordinary penetration of vision. Swordsmanship as he learnt and taught and saw it daily practised consisted of a series of attacks and parries, a series of disengages ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

... active cause at work which gives us hope of seeing the rise of a stronger race, a race which will possess in abundance those same qualities which are lacking to the degenerate vanishing species, strength of will, responsibility, self-reliance, the power of concentration...." ...
— The Cult of Incompetence • Emile Faguet


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