glomeration

English

Etymology

Latin glomeratio.

Noun

glomeration (countable and uncountable, plural glomerations)

1. The act of forming or gathering into a ball or round mass; conglomeration.
2. That which is formed into a ball.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     the rainbow consisteth of a glomeration of small drops , which cannot possibly fall

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “glomeration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)