asphalt concrete

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asphalt concrete (countable and uncountable, plural asphalt concretes)

  2. A material often used for road surfacing, composed of a hard, granular material such as crushed stone combined with asphalt as a binder.
    Synonym: asphalt (elliptically synonymous)
    Hypernyms: concrete (broad sense) < material
    Coordinate terms: macadam; concrete (usual narrow sense)
    Near-synonyms: blacktop, tarmac, tarmacadam
    Before this street was paved with asphalt concrete, it was paved with cobbles.

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