What is the meaning of consolidated?

verb

• Unite into one.
  • usage: "The companies consolidated"
  • synonyms: consolidate
• Make firm or secure; strengthen.
  • usage: "consolidate one's gains"; "consolidate one's hold on first place"
  • synonyms: consolidate
• Bring together into a single whole or system.
  • usage: "The town and county schools are being consolidated"
  • synonyms: consolidate
• Form into a solid mass or whole.
  • usage: "The mud had consolidated overnight"
  • synonyms: consolidate
• Make or form into a solid or hardened mass.
  • usage: "consolidate fibers into boards"
  • synonyms: consolidate

adjective

• Joined together into a whole.
  • usage: "United Industries"; "the amalgamated colleges constituted a university"; "a consolidated school"
  • synonyms: amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, fused
• Forming a solid mass. .