Consolidation has several meanings:

• Consolidation (business), the mergers or acquisitions of many smaller companies into much larger ones
• Consolidation (geology), 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
• Consolidation is also a popular name of a steam locomotive type, with 2-8-0 wheels, 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

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