The difference between Concentration and Major

When used as nouns, concentration means the act, process or ability of concentrating, whereas major means a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel.


Major is also verb with the meaning: to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university.

Major is also adjective with the meaning: of great significance or importance.

check bellow for the other definitions of Concentration and Major

  1. Concentration as a noun:

    The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated. The direction of attention to a specific object. The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation. The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.

  2. Concentration as a noun:

    A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.

  3. Concentration as a noun (chemistry):

    The proportion of a substance in a whole. The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))

  4. Concentration as a noun:

    The matching game pelmanism.

  1. Major as a noun:

    a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel

    Examples:

    "He used to be a major in the army."

  1. Major as an adjective:

    Of great significance or importance.

  2. Major as an adjective:

    Greater in number, quantity, or extent

    Examples:

    "the major part of the assembly"

  3. Major as an adjective:

    Of full legal age, having attained majority

  4. Major as an adjective (music):

    Of a scale that follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone

    Examples:

    "A major scale."

  5. Major as an adjective (music):

    Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.

  6. Major as an adjective (music):

    Containing the note a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.

  1. Major as a noun (US, Canada, Australia, and, New Zealand):

    The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.

    Examples:

    "Midway through his second year of college, he still hadn't chosen a major."

  2. Major as a noun (US, Canada, Australia, and, New Zealand):

    A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study.

    Examples:

    "She is a math major."

  3. Major as a noun:

    A person of legal age.

  4. Major as a noun (logic):

    The major premise.

  5. Major as a noun (Canadian football):

    A touchdown, or major score.

  6. Major as a noun:

    A large, commercially successful record label, as opposed to an indie.

  7. Major as a noun (British slang, dated):

    An elder brother (especially at a public school).

  8. Major as a noun (zoology):

    A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.

  1. Major as a verb (intransitive):

    to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university

    Examples:

    "I have decided to major in mathematics."

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