CONCENTRATION

[ˏkɔns(ə)n`treɪʃ(ə)n]

концентрация; сосредоточенность

сосредоточение

крепость

сгущение

обогащение руды

concentration: translation

1 giving all your attention/effort to sth

▪ deep, great, intense

▪ absolute, total

▪

a look of total concentration on her face

▪ good

▪ poor

▪ exclusive

▪ demand, need, require

▪

The game requires great concentration.

▪ lose

▪ break, disturb

▪

Don's voice from outside broke my concentration.

▪ lapse (esp.AmE)

▪ concentration on

▪

his concentration on his writing

▪ a lack of concentration

▪ a lapse in concentration, a lapse of concentration

▪

One momentary lapse in concentration could prove fatal.

▪ powers of concentration

▪

She has great powers of concentration for a child her age.

2 large number/amount of sth in one place

▪ elevated, great, heavy, high, large

▪

The greatest concentration of traffic is downtown.

▪ low

▪ varying

▪ calcium, glucose, oxygen, salt, etc.

▪

Evaporation gradually increases the salt concentration of the water.

▪ geographical

▪ increase

▪ decrease, reduce

▪ calculate, determine, estimate

▪ increase, rise

▪

The concentration of nitrates in the drinking water has risen in recent years.

▪ decrease, fall

concentration: translation

concentration con‧cen‧tra‧tion [ˌkɒnsnˈtreɪʆn ǁ ˌkɑːn-] noun [uncountable]

ECONOMICS when companies combine to form larger companies, resulting in fewer businesses in an industry; = CONSOLIDATION:

ˈbuyer concenˌtration ECONOMICS

the situation in industries where there are relatively few possible buyers

concentration UK US /ˌkɒns^ənˈtreɪʃ^ən/ noun

► [C or U] the fact of there being a large number or amount of people or things of the same type in the same place: »

The state's highest concentration of wealth is in the metro areas.

»

Denver has one of the biggest concentrations of tech workers in the country.

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By identifying geographical concentrations of industries, we can identify training needs that exist in those regions.

► [U] the fact of things being combined into a single group, or controlled by the same person or organization: »

This situation has resulted in the concentration of the industry in the hands of a few multinational companies.

► [U] the ability to give all of your attention to one particular activity, subject, or problem: »

Low costs and concentration on core business activities form the basis of our success.

»

Many of the mistakes she made in the job were due to a lack of concentration.

→ See also BUYER CONCENTRATION(Cf.↑buyer concentration), MARKET CONCENTRATION(Cf. ↑market concentration)

concentration: translation

abbreviation, absorbed attention, absorption, abstraction, accelerando, acceleration, advertence, advertency, agglutination, aggravation, alertness, application, approach, ardor, assiduity, assiduousness, astriction, astringency, asymptote, attention, attention span, attentiveness, awareness, beefing-up, blowing up, blowup, bottleneck, brown study, bulldog tenacity, care, centering, centralism, centralization, cervix, circumscription, close study, clumping, clustering, coarctation, collision course, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentralization, concentrate, concourse, concretion, concurrence, condensation, confluence, conflux, congress, consciousness, consideration, consolidation, constancy, constriction, constringency, contemplation, contemplativeness, contraction, contracture, convergence, converging, crossing, curtailment, debate, decoction, decrease, deep study, deep thought, deepening, deliberation, densification, diligence, diminuendo, distillate, distillation, dogged perseverance, doggedness, ear, earnestness, elixir, endurance, energeticalness, energy, engagement, engrossment, enhancement, enthrallment, essence, exacerbation, exaggeration, explosion, expression, extract, extraction, fervor, fidelity, firmness, firmness of mind, fixedness, flintiness, focalization, focus, focusing, funnel, hardening, heating-up, heed, heedfulness, heightening, hourglass, hourglass figure, hub, immersion, indefatigability, industriousness, industry, inflexibility, information explosion, infusion, insistence, insistency, intensification, intentiveness, intentness, involvement, isthmus, knitting, laboriousness, loyalty, magnification, meditation, meeting, melancholy, mindfulness, monomania, musing, mutual approach, narrow place, narrowing, narrowing gap, neck, note, notice, observance, observation, obsession, obstinacy, patience, patience of Job, pensiveness, permanence, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pickup, plodding, plugging, pooling, population explosion, preoccupation, pressing, profound thought, puckering, purification, pursing, quintessence, radius, rapt attention, redoubling, reduction, refinement, reflectiveness, regard, regardfulness, reinforcement, relentlessness, remark, rendering, rendition, resolution, respect, reverie, rigidity, sedulity, sedulousness, settledness, shortening, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, soaking, solidification, speculativeness, speedup, spirit, spokes, squeezing, stability, stamina, staunchness, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, steeliness, steeping, step-up, stick-to-itiveness, stranglement, strangulation, strengthening, strenuousness, striction, stricture, stubbornness, studiousness, study, submersion, systole, tangent, tenaciousness, tenacity, thought, thoughtfulness, tightening, tirelessness, trueness, unremittingness, unsparingness, unswerving attention, unyieldingness, vehemence, wasp waist, wistfulness, wrinkling, zealousness