concameration

See also: concamération

English

Etymology

Latin concameratio.

Noun

concameration (plural concamerations)

1. An arch or vault, especially a system of interconnecting vaults
   • 1927, Donald Wandrei, “A Fragment of a Dream”, in The Recluse, Athol, Mass.: W. Paul Cook, page twenty:

     Once he looked at the vault above, but the entire concameration was completely and desolately empty of all save blackness and that westward-waning moon.

2. (zoology) A chamber of a multilocular shell.
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:

     impossible concamerations