• Finnish: vahvistus, lujittaminen, vahvistaminen, lujitus
• Hebrew: גיבוש (gibush) (the act of causing other people or things to consolidate); התגבשות (hitgabshut) (the act of becoming consolidated)

• Finnish: yhdistäminen, yhteensovittaminen

French

Noun

consolidation

1. Consolidation

Consolidation may refer to the following:

• Consolidation (business), the mergers or acquisitions of many smaller companies into much larger ones
• Consolidation (soil), 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
• Federal student loan consolidation, allows students to consolidate student loans into one single debt
• Consolidation, a popular name of a steam locomotive type, with 2-8-0 wheel, built first in 1864. The name came from consolidation of two rail companies

See also

• Consolidated city-county, a consolidation of city and county governments used by some United States cities
• Travel consolidators, a consolidation of travel services in one package or at one single point of access
• Likud, an Israeli conservative revisionist Zionist political party whose name is Hebrew for "Consolidation"

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