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/əglˈɑmərˌeɪt/ Listen

noun

Agglomerate n.

A collection or mass.

(Geol.) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.

verb

Agglomerate v. t. (past & past part. agglomerated; pres. part. agglomerating) To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. "Where he builds the agglomerated pile."

Agglomerate v. i. To collect in a mass.

adjective

Agglomerated, Agglomerate adj.

Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.

(Bot.) Collected into a rounded head of flowers.

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Etymology of 'Agglomerate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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