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Agglomerate
Definitions
- 1 collected into a ball, heap, or mass
- 1 clustered together but not coherent wordnet
- 1 A collection or mass.
- 2 a collection of objects laid on top of each other wordnet
- 3 A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
- 4 volcanic rock consisting of large fragments fused together wordnet
- 5 An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.
- 1 To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. ambitransitive
"The bustle of a croud is not ill-adapted to the pencil: but the management of it requires great artifice. The whole must be massed together, and considered as one body. ¶ I mean not to have the whole body so agglomerated, as to consist of no detached groups: but to have these groups […] appear to belong to one whole, by the artifice of composition, and the effect of light."
- 2 form into one cluster wordnet
- 3 To extend an urban area by contiguous development, so as to merge the built-up area of one or more central cities or settlements and their suburbs (thus creating an agglomeration).
Etymology
From Latin agglomerātus, past participle of agglomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from ad- (“to”) + glomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”).
From Latin agglomerātus, past participle of agglomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from ad- (“to”) + glomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”).
From Latin agglomerātus, past participle of agglomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from ad- (“to”) + glomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”).
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