concrete
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Also seen as: concreter · concretest · concretes · concreting
Sense 1
Real, actual, tangible.
Adjective
Examples
Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-08-01)
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-08-01 via kaikki.org).
Sense 2
Real, actual, tangible. — Analogous to the categories of algebraic objects which category theory was created to generalize, in the sense of having objects which can be thought of as sets equipped with some additional structure. Formally, equipped with a faithful functor to the category of sets.
Adjective
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-08-01 via kaikki.org).
Sense 3
A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
Vật liệu xây dựng tạo bằng cách trộn xi măng, nước và vật liệu tổng hợp
Machine-translated — suggest a fix
Noun
Examples
Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-08-01)
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-08-01 via kaikki.org).
Sense 4
A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand. — Such a material whose cement is Portland cement or a similar limestone derivative.
Vật liệu xây dựng tạo bằng cách trộn xi măng, nước và vật liệu tổng hợp
Machine-translated — suggest a fix
Noun
Examples
Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-08-01)
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-08-01 via kaikki.org).
Common questions
What does “concrete” mean?
Real, actual, tangible.
Is “concrete” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.