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Agglomerate   /əglˈɑmərˌeɪt/   Listen
Agglomerate

noun
1.
Volcanic rock consisting of large fragments fused together.
2.
A collection of objects laid on top of each other.  Synonyms: cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile.
verb
(past & past part. agglomerated; pres. part. agglomerating)
1.
Form into one cluster.
adjective
1.
Clustered together but not coherent.  Synonyms: agglomerated, agglomerative, clustered.





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"Agglomerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... long before the sun itself, to any given temperature, and consequently to that at which the greater part of the vaporous matter of which they consisted would become liquid or solid. The known law of gravitation would then cause them to agglomerate in masses, which would assume the shape our planets actually exhibit; would acquire, each about its own axis, a rotatory movement; and would in that state revolve, as the planets actually do, about the sun, in ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill
... Ness of Duncansbay and the other the sandstones of Dunnet Head north of Brough. They point to volcanic activity subsequent to the deposition of the John o' Groats beds and of the Dunnet sandstones. The materials filling these vents consist of agglomerate charged with blocks of diabase, sandstone, flagstone ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various


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