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How to pronounce concrete
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What does concrete mean?
adjReal, actual, tangible.
“Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that Bigfoot exists.”
Analogous to the categories of algebraic objects which category theory was created to generalize, in the sense of having objects which can be thought of as sets equipped with some additional structure
Equipped with a faithful functor to X (called a base category), in which case C is called a concrete category over X.
nounA building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
“Various types of concrete have been used in the construction of this highway.”
Such a material whose cement is Portland cement or a similar limestone derivative.
“The sidewalk was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.”
A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
“With regard to the physical domain, concretes are as a rule perceived through the senses.”
verbTo cover with or encase in concrete (building material).
“I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.”
To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).
“It is only such a logos that can concrete the concrete and make reality real.”
To unite or coalesce into a solid mass.
“The Blood of ſome Perſons who have dy'd of the Plague could not be made to concrete, by reaſon of the Putrefaction already begun.”
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