From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Concrete \Con"crete\ (? or ?), a. [L. concretus, p. p. of
concrescere to grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F.
concret. See {Crescent}.]
1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate
particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
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The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of
the chaos must be of the same figure as the last
liquid state. --Bp. Burnet.
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2. (Logic)
(a) Standing for an object as it exists in nature,
invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from
standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to
{abstract}. Hence:
(b) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; --
opposed to {general}. See {Abstract}, 3.
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Concrete is opposed to abstract. The names of
individuals are concrete, those of classes
abstract. --J. S. Mill.
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Concrete terms, while they express the quality,
do also express, or imply, or refer to, some
subject to which it belongs. --I. Watts.
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{Concrete number}, a number associated with, or applied to, a
particular object, as three men, five days, etc., as
distinguished from an abstract number, or one used without
reference to a particular object.
{Concrete quantity}, a physical object or a collection of
such objects. --Davies & Peck.
{Concrete science}, a physical science, one having as its
subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract
laws.
{Concrete sound or movement of the voice}, one which slides
continuously up or down, as distinguished from a
{discrete} movement, in which the voice leaps at once from
one line of pitch to another. --Rush.
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