Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To form or collect into a rounded mass.
- adjective Gathered into a rounded mass.
- noun A confused or jumbled mass; a heap.
- noun A volcanic rock consisting of rounded and angular fragments fused together.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To collect or gather into a mass.
- To gather, grow, or collect into a ball or mass: as, “hard, agglomerating salts,”
- Gathered into a ball or mass; piled together; specifically, in botany, crowded into a dense cluster, but not cohering.
- noun A fortuitous mass or assemblage of things; an agglomeration.
- noun In geology, an accumulation of materials made up chiefly of large blocks “huddled together in a pell-mell way, without regard to size, shape, or weight.”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.
- adjective (Bot.) Collected into a rounded head of flowers.
- transitive verb To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
- noun A collection or mass.
- noun (Geol.) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from
conglomerate . - intransitive verb To collect in a mass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Collected into aball ,heap , ormass . - noun A
collection ormass . - noun geology A mass of
angular volcanic fragments united byheat ; distinguished fromconglomerate . - noun meteorology An ice cover of
floe formed by thefreezing together of various forms ofice . - verb To
wind orcollect into aball ; hence, togather into amass or anything like a mass.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective clustered together but not coherent
- noun volcanic rock consisting of large fragments fused together
- noun a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- verb form into one cluster
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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"If the droplets agglomerate with sediment," he said, "they could even settle to the bottom."
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"If the droplets agglomerate with sediment," he said, "they could even settle to the bottom."
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And neighborhoods and hotels agglomerate around important hubs within the system.
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And neighborhoods and hotels agglomerate around important hubs within the system.
Is a rail network a social structure? Daniel Little 2009
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I'm not sure which definition of little l or big L libertarianism is being invoked, but I thought that even in a Nozickian world, groups would be allowed to agglomerate, self-select, and restrict entry to their group.
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Somehow, that nasty paperwork stuff has a tendency to agglomerate on my desk.
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Somehow, that nasty paperwork stuff has a tendency to agglomerate on my desk.
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A nuanced, intelligent review from a critic whose taste I trust means much more to me than an agglomerate of plus/minus scores.
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Retailers agglomerate because they perceive that any negative effects from increased competition are outweighed by:
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Moreover, foamy virus is just one of several that can make cultured cells swell up and agglomerate.
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