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concentration English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word concentration once they have reached the level A2 – Elementary. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning concentration meaning

What does concentration mean?

Definitions in simple English

concentration Noun

— A concentration is a large amount of something in one place or group. The oil-sands in Alberta, Canada, contain high concentrations of oil. The growing concentration of people in cities is causing new problems.

— Concentration is the ability to focus your attention on something. Runners mustn't worry or do anything else to break their concentration. A clean desk in a quiet place will help students improve concentration. The government's concentration should be on helping those in the greatest need.

— The amount of solute in a solution; the concentration of a solution is measured in parts per million (ppm)

concentration

— noun the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume

— noun the spatial property of being crowded together

— noun strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material

— noun complete attention; intense mental effort

— noun increase in density

— noun bringing together military forces

— noun (= assiduity) great and constant diligence and attention

Synonyms concentration synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as concentration?

concentration English » English

attention

density

absorption

thickening

undivided attention

preoccupation

condensation

centralization

meditation

intensity

heed

engrossment

devotion

contemplation

compactness

clotting

bunching

watchfulness

tightness

single-mindedness

inspissation

immersion

gathering

focus

diligence

denseness

consolidation

con

attentiveness

assiduousness

assiduity

wholehearted

wariness

viscous

viscosity

vigilance

turnout

thought

thickness

thick

tension

tending

study

strength

spissitude

richness

retrenchment

regimentation

pyknon

plaster

Topics concentration topics

What do people use concentration to talk about?

Universe, creation Water

Solutions of water

• What words refer to adding more of a substance to the solution?
  concentrate be concentrated concentration thick

Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Attention

• What words refer to paying a lot of attention to something?
  pay close attention concentrate concentration give something your undivided attention

Language and thought Think Mind

Think about

• What words refer to thinking carefully?
  attend attention beware careful caution cautious concentrate concentration concern concerned consider consideration foresight guard intentional interest occupy precaution provident prudent purposeful refuse regard tend think thoroughly give thought thoughtful think hard

Physical actions Arrange

Gather

• What words refer to a group of things that have been gathered together?
  gathering assemblage bunch collection concentration group heap huddle mass pile stack

Social behavior Law Punish

Imprison

• Where are people imprisoned?
  prison brig can concentration camp correctional institution death camp dungeon house of correction jail jailhouse county jail joint pen penal colony penitentiary federal penitentiary pound reformatory slammer stockade

Examples concentration examples

How do I use concentration in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The prisoners fled from the concentration camp.

It's the sort of work that calls for a high level of concentration.

During the Stalinist era, prisoners at concentration camps became slaves in service of the state.

Korean mental hospitals have been compared to concentration camps. Patients are said to be treated like animals who are subjected to violence and maltreatment rather than therapy.

The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has now reached 400 parts per million.

For more than 200 years, or since the industrial revolution, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased due to the burning of fossil fuels and land use change.

Concentration is a very simple thing.

This is the kind of work that requires a high level of concentration.

When were Jews first sent to the concentration camps?

Tom's grandfather was a concentration camp survivor.

I've got some problems with my concentration.

Chess helps improve reading skills and concentration.

Many Japanese-Americans were sent off to concentration camps during World War II.

Movie subtitles

My friend, when a man is drunk with love. he can't divide his concentration with wine, you know.

I'm working on a government bill which requires the concentration of all my energies.

The men are all in concentration camp.

It must take enormous concentration.. andpatience.

He escaped the concentration camp.

In a concentration camp, one is apt to lose a little weight.

I was in a German concentration camp for a year.

If I didn't give them to you in a concentration camp where you had more persuasive methods at your disposal I certainly won't give them to you now.

French authorities may find a reason to put him in the concentration camp here.

When I was in the concentration camp were you lonely in Paris?

We'd both wind up in a concentration camp.

Is that what you're wearing in the concentration camp?

One was taken prisoner. He's in a concentration camp in Wittenberge.

But to turn my eyes blind that I must fall to my knees to worship a maniac who has made my country a concentration camp who has made my people slaves.

The men are in concentration camp.

I'll send you to a concentration camp.

If Commander Schultz is found in this house, we'll all go to a concentration camp and have our heads cut off, too!

It must take enormous concentration.

We'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true?

Concentration camp.

They're holding him in a concentration camp in Germany.

We writers need concentration.

He escaped from a concentration camp.

The French authorities may find a reason to put him in the concentration camp here.

Instead of this petty charge against him, you could get something big something that would chuck him in a concentration camp for years.

But are my eyes blind that I must fall to my knees to worship a maniac who has made of my country a concentration camp?

News and current affairs

Concentration of media ownership and control further fuels popular mistrust, setting the stage for citizen investigation to enter the vacuum.

The growing concentration of wealth - and a significant reduction in taxes on it - has meant less money to spend on investments for the public good, like education and the protection of children.

While Haider is careful not to say anything which can be construed as anti-Semitic, his praise for the valor and honor of Waffen-SS veterans as well as comments on Nazi concentration camps clearly suggest where his ideological home is.

MELBOURNE - Earlier this year, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million (ppm).

But generally, the free flow of information reduces the concentration of power.

Structural concentration of incomes at the top is combining with easy money and a chase for yield, driving equity prices upward.

And yet, despite widespread concern and anxiety about poverty, unemployment, inequality, and extreme concentration of incomes and wealth, no alternative growth model has emerged.

Nowhere is there a credible plan to limit the concentration of wealth and power, broaden economic gains through strong real-income growth for the poor, and maintain macroeconomic stability.

The rising concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is leading to more extreme storms, higher-intensity hurricanes, rising ocean levels, melting glaciers and ice sheets, droughts, floods and other climate changes.

In this process, the concentration of foreign direct investment (FDI) along the coasts will also continue to exacerbate regional inequalities.

In World War II, German corporations were all too willing to profit from the slave labor of those in concentration camps, and Swiss banks were happy to pocket the gold of Jewish victims of Nazi terror.

And it may raise concerns about media concentration in Russia, but remains silent about media concentration in Italy.

There are, as we noted, justified complaints about the lack of diversity in television broadcasting in Russia, yet Bush has not opposed efforts by America's Federal Communications Commission to weaken laws on media concentration.

At present, almost any standard measure of the concentration of global economic power would show a declining trend.

Nonetheless, the reduction in CO2 concentration - and hence temperature - in 2100 will be greater from the future reductions.

The danger lies in the concentration of information - arguably a concentration of power - that Google represents.

Yet unless the rising curve of annual emissions can be reversed, the CO2 concentration will irrevocably reach a truly threatening level.

The problem in China is not the volume of state-owned assets, but their concentration in a few companies and industries - a situation that poses risks to economic performance.

In Sweden, the widespread use of snus - a smokeless tobacco product with a lower concentration of carcinogenic nitrosamines - has contributed to a dramatic decline in the incidence of lung cancer, to the world's lowest levels.

Western Europe's long-held position as the world's most important concentration of military power after the United States and Russia appears to be over.