agglomerate
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin glomus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin glomerō Latin agglomerō Latin agglomerātusbor. English agglomerate 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”).
- borrowed from agglomerātus
Definitions
collected into a ball, heap, or mass
A collection or mass.
A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat
A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
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An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.
To wind or collect into a ball
To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
- There were few white friends in the social life of the peasants. The white colony agglomerated in the towns and the peasants were 80 per cent of a population of a million.
To extend an urban area by contiguous development, so as to merge the built-up area of…
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).
The neighborhood
- synonymgather
- synonymgather up
- synonymmerge
- synonympile up
- synonymcoalesce
- neighboragglomeration
- neighboragglomerative
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for agglomerate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA