To gather or draw together toward a common center point.
From French concentrer, combining Latin con- (together) and centrum (center). The term emerged in the 17th century to describe both physical gathering and mental focus toward a central point.
This word shows how language borrowed from French mathematical concepts—the idea of concentration as a measurable geometric property actually helped scientists describe everything from how gravity works to how light focuses through a lens.
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