Concrete (disambiguation)
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Concrete
Concrete
Concrete is a composite construction material, composed of cement and other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, aggregate , water and chemical admixtures.The word concrete comes from the Latin word...

is a composite building material made from the combination of aggregate and cement binder.

Concrete may also refer to:
  • Reinforced concrete
    Reinforced concrete
    Reinforced concrete is concrete in which reinforcement bars , reinforcement grids, plates or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen the concrete in tension. It was invented by French gardener Joseph Monier in 1849 and patented in 1867. The term Ferro Concrete refers only to concrete that is...

    , also called ferroconcrete in some countries, is concrete with embedded reinforcement


Literature, film, or music
  • Concrete (comics)
    Concrete (comics)
    Concrete is a comic book series created and written by Paul Chadwick and published by Dark Horse Comics. His first appearance is Dark Horse Presents #1...

    , a comic book series written by Paul Chadwick
  • Concrete, the English translation of Thomas Bernhard
    Thomas Bernhard
    Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Bernhard, whose body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II," is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era.- Life :Thomas Bernhard was...

    's 1982 novel Beton
  • Musique concrète
    Musique concrète
    Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...

    , making music from unusual sounds including "real world" sounds
  • Concrete poetry
    Concrete poetry
    Concrete poetry or shape poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on....

    , a form of poetry
  • Concrete (film)
    Concrete (film)
    is a 2004 independently-produced Japanese film that recounts the story of the murder of Junko Furuta. The film deals as much with the social factors that produced Furuta's four assailants as it does with Furuta's suffering at their hands....

    , a 2004 Japanese film that recounts the story of the Junko Furuta murder
  • Concrete (Fear Factory album), 2002
  • Concrete (Pet Shop Boys album)
    Concrete (Pet Shop Boys album)
    Concrete is the seventeenth album by the British band Pet Shop Boys. It was released on 23 October 2006.Due to be called Concert, on 20 September 2006, Pet Shop Boys announced that the album was going to be called Concrete, which was the title that they originally wanted for the album...

    , 2006
  • Concrete (Izzy Stradlin album)
    Concrete (Izzy Stradlin album)
    Concrete is former Guns N' Roses rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin's ninth solo album, released only on iTunes in 2008.The Izzy Stradlin band has two guitar players but the song "Drove" features 3 guitar tracks...

    , 2008
  • Concrete (Sunny Sweeney album)
    Concrete (Sunny Sweeney album)
    Concrete is the second studio album by American country music singer Sunny Sweeney. It was released on August 23, 2011 via Republic Nashville. The album includes the singles "From a Table Away" and "Staying's Worse Than Leaving," both of which have charted within the top 40 of Hot Country...

    , 2011

Places
  • Concrete, Texas
    Concrete, Texas
    Concrete, Texas, USA was a town located in southwestern Guadalupe County alongside the present Farm Road 775, approximately two miles north of the town of LaVernia and between the communities of LaVernia and New Berlin....

  • Concrete, Washington
    Concrete, Washington
    Concrete is a town in north-central Skagit County, Washington, United States. The population was 705 at the 2010 census. The town of Concrete is included in the Mount Vernon-Anacortes, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Early history:...

    , a town in Skagit County, Washington, USA

Other
  • Concrete Roman
    Concrete Roman
    Concrete Roman is a slab serif typeface designed by Donald Knuth using his METAFONT program. It was intended to accompany the Euler mathematical font which it partners in Knuth's book Concrete Mathematics. It is has a darker appearance than its more famous sibling, Computer Modern...

    , slab serif typeface designed by Donald Knuth using his METAFONT program
  • Concrete (student newspaper)
    Concrete (student newspaper)
    Concrete is the University of East Anglia's student newspaper. With a circulation of up to 5,000, Concrete is free and published every other week on a Tuesday, during term time. The newspaper celebrated its 250th issue in January 2011....

    , a student newspaper at the University of East Anglia in Norwich
  • A frozen custard blended with any of dozens of ingredients, popularized at Ted Drewes
    Ted Drewes
    Ted Drewes is a frozen custard shop in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The original St. Louis shop on Natural Bridge Road operated from 1930 to 1958. The Chippewa Street is open much of the year, the South Grand Boulevard location is open in summer. The Chippewa location is open until around midnight...

     in St. Louis, Missouri
  • The quality of a computer software element that is a result of program refinement
  • The quality of a computer software element that is not abstract
    Abstraction (computer science)
    In computer science, abstraction is the process by which data and programs are defined with a representation similar to its pictorial meaning as rooted in the more complex realm of human life and language with their higher need of summarization and categorization , while hiding away the...

  • Concrete (philosophy), the opposite of abstract
  • Concrete, the waxy mass remaining after solvent extraction; a term used in Fragrance extraction

See also

  • concrete5
    Concrete5
    concrete5 is an open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets.It enables users to edit site content directly from the page...

    , an open source content management system popularly called concrete
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