Consolidation
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Consolidation may refer to the following:
- Consolidation (business), the mergers or acquisitions of many smaller companies into much larger ones
- Consolidation (geology), a geological process whereby a soil decreases in volume
- Consolidation (media), consolidation in the United States media into a few companies
- Consolidation (medicine), a clinical term for solidification into a firm dense mass
- Championship consolidation, the act of combining two separate championships into a single title
- Data consolidation, the consolidation of data from multiple sources into a centralized system
- Democratic consolidation, the process by which a new democracy matures
- Memory consolidation, the process by which recent memories are crystallised into long-term memory
- School consolidation, the process of combining two or more small schools into one larger institution
- Consolidation, a popular name of a steam locomotive type, with 2-8-0 wheels, built first in 1864. The name came from consolidation of two rail companies
[edit] See also
- Consolidated city-county, a consolidation of city and county governments used by some United States cities