consolidation

1. 1. The act or process of consolidating.
   2. The state of being consolidated.
2. The merger of two or more commercial interests or corporations.

In technical analysis, the movement of an asset's price within a well-defined pattern or barrier of trading levels. Consolidation is generally regarded as a period of indecision, which ends when the price of the asset breaks beyond the restrictive barriers. Periods of consolidation can be found in charts covering any time interval (i.e. hours, days, etc.), and these periods can last for minutes, days, months or even years. Lengthy periods of consolidation are often known as a base.

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The levels of resistance and support within the consolidation are created through the upper and lower bounds of the stock's price. Once the price of the asset breaks through the identified areas of support or resistance, volatility quickly increases and so does the opportunity for short-term traders to generate a profit.

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Combining two or more computer records into one.

Presentation as one economic entity of the earnings of a parent and subsidiary (subsidiaries) subsequent to the date of acquisition. The parent company owns more than 50% of the voting common stock of the subsidiary, and is therefore in control. In consolidation, the reporting mechanism is the entire group and not the separate companies. Note that the entities that make up the consolidated group retain their separate legal entity; adjustments and eliminations are for Consolidated Financial Statements only.

noun

A bringing together into a whole: coalition, unification, union, unity. See part/whole.

Definition: combination, fortification
Antonyms: dispersal, division, parting, separation, severance, weakening

The reform and reorganization of land ownership in order to solve problems of fragmentation. In the late 1940s, much Spanish farmland was impossibly fragmented, especially in Galicia, where the average number of plots per farm was 32. Accordingly, a programme of land consolidation was begun in 1952 with the aim of creating for each farmer a single plot of land equal in area to his or her previous, scattered holdings, and with reasonable access to each farmer's house. Most progress has been made in central and northern Spain. A similar scheme is the French remembrement.

Consolidation makes co-operatives, mechanization, and irrigation more viable, but increased production depends on the type of land held. A major problem is later fragmentation.

1. The compaction of freshly placed concrete or mortar, usually by vibration, centrifugation, or tamping, to mold it within forms and around embedded parts and reinforcement and to eliminate voids other than entrained air. Also see compaction.
2. The process whereby soil particles are packed more closely by the application of continued pressure.

Solidification; the process of becoming solidified or the condition of being solid; said especially of the lung as it fills with fibrinous exudate in pneumonia.

(DOD) The combining or merging of elements to perform a common or related function.

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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 (soil), a geological process whereby a soil decreases in volume
• Consolidation (media), consolidation of United States media into a few companies
• Pulmonary consolidation, 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
• Server consolidation, where multiple servers are consolidated using platform virtualization
• 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 Whyte notation.
• Land consolidation, the process that consolidates small fragmented parcels of land into larger contiguous plots.

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, a conservative Israeli political party whose name is Hebrew for "Consolidation"

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