Consolidation vs. Rationalization — What's the Difference?

The act or process of consolidating.

The act, process, or practice of rationalizing.

The state of being consolidated.

An instance of rationalizing.

The merger of two or more commercial interests or corporations.

The process, or result of rationalizing.

The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated

A statement of one's motives, or of the causes of some event.

The combination of several actions into one.

A reorganization of a company or organization in order to improve its efficiency.

(medicine) A solidification into a firm dense mass. It is usually applied to induration (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung.

(psychiatry) The concealment of true motivation in some non-threatening way.

The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.

(mathematics) The simplification of an expression without changing its value.

To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.

The act or process of rationalizing.

The combination of several actions into one.

The cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason

Combining into a solid mass

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening

The act of combining into an integral whole;

(mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation

Something that has consolidated into a compact mass;

The organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency

Systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale