consolidation

noun3

1. •
   The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated.

   • At this time also, what remained of independent Soviet culture and the intelligentsia was systematically destroyed: the regime was entering the phase of final consolidation. — 1978
2. •
   The combination of several actions into one.
3. •
   A solidification into a firm dense mass. It is usually applied to induration (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung.

   • The areas of lung dysventilation with an absence of alveolar air are visualized in the form of consolidations adjacent to the pleural line. — 2015

noun1

1. •
   A steam locomotive of the 2-8-0 wheel arrangement, first built in the United States in 1866.

   • W.D. 2-8-0s have replaced Gresley Consolidations to a great extent on mineral and slow freight trains. — 1951