agglomerate
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin agglomerare (“to wind into a ball”), from ad (“to”) + glomerare (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”).
Pronunciation
- Adjective, noun:
- Verb:
Adjective
agglomerate (comparative more agglomerate, superlative most agglomerate)
Synonyms
Noun
agglomerate (plural agglomerates)
- A collection or mass.
- (geology) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
- (meteorology) An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.
Synonyms
- (collection or mass): agglomeration, collection, mass
Verb
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- (transitive, intransitive) To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
Synonyms
- (collect into a ball): ball, ball up, bundle up, clew, conglobate, conglobe, globe, orb, wind
- (gather into a mass): amass, gather, gather up, merge, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up or Thesaurus:coalesce
Further reading
- “agglomerate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “agglomerate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “agglomerate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Italian
Verb
agglomerate
- second-person plural present indicative of agglomerare
- second-person plural imperative of agglomerare
- feminine plural of agglomerato
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) agglomerāte
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