concameration
(kɒnkæməˈreɪʃən)
[ad. L. concamerātiōn-em vaulting, vault, n. of action f. concamerāre: see above. Mod.F. concamération.]
1. Vaulting, vaulted roof or ceiling.
| 1644 Digby Nat. Bodies iv. (1658) 37 The concameration of an oven. 1774 Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1840) II. 99 note, The ceiling..or concameration called cœlum, being of wood beautifully painted. |
2. The vault or sphere of the heavens; one of the celestial ‘spheres’ of older astronomy.
| 1635 N. Carpenter Geog. Del. i. iv. 78 How many distinct and strange concamerations of Orbes and circles are placed..betwixt the Moone and the first Moueable? 1653 R. Mason Let. to Author in Bulwer's Anthropomet., In the Heavens or Celestiall concamerations. 1665 Glanvill Sceps. Sci. xx. 128 Those impossible Concamerations, Intersections, Involutions, and feigned Rotations of solid Orbs. 1794 Mrs. Piozzi Synon. II. 387 The grand concameration or firmament forming a visible arch. |
3. Physics. The curve of a sound-wave, which as it widens out, circumscribes the wave that succeeds it.
| 1882 in Syd. Soc. Lex. |
4. Surg. = cameration b.
| 1882 Syd. Soc. Lex., Concameration..also a synonym of Camarosis. |
5. Division into chambers or cells; a chambered formation, a connected series of chambers, e.g. the system of ventricles of the brain (cavitas concamerata).
| 1668 Culpepper & Cole tr. Barthol. Anat. iii. vi. 140 The Plexus Choroides..making the Concameration of the Ventricles. 1668 M. Casaubon Treat. Spirits (1772) 281 Such a rock as Wooky rock in Summersetshire is, consisting of many concamerations. 1695 Phil. Trans. XIX. 35 Within the Concameration of the Brain. |
b. Bot. ‘A term for the division of fruits into segments’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
6. One of the chambers or cells of a series: esp. said of chambered shells.
| 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 164 (T.) The insides of these hot-houses are divided into many cells and concamerations. 1658 Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 922 Within [the wasps' nest] are six square cells..but the middle concamerations the multitude of Wasps had filled. 1835 Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. x. 311 The whole body [of the Nautilus] appears to reside in the last and largest concameration of the shell. |