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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
agglomeration
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an agglomeration of laws and regulations
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Water is then added and mixing continued until the agglomeration is of a wet, yet stiff, consistency.
▪ With agglomeration of settlements, some village churches were downgraded and abandoned; others became our parish churches.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agglomeration

Agglomeration \Ag*glom`er*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. agglom['e]ration.]

  1. The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.

    An excessive agglomeration of turrets.
    --Warton.

  2. State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
agglomeration

1774, "action of collecting in a mass," from Latin agglomerationem (nominative agglomeratio), noun of action from past participle stem of agglomerare (see agglomerate). In reference to a mass so formed, it is recorded from 1833.

Wiktionary
agglomeration

n. 1 The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. 2 State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster. 3 (context geography English) An extended city area comprising the built-up area of a central city and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area.

WordNet
agglomeration
  1. n. a jumbled collection or mass

  2. the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating

Wikipedia
Agglomeration

Agglomeration may refer to:

  • Urban agglomeration
  • a subcategory of Flocculation
  • Agglomeration principle, a term coined by philosopher Bernard Williams

Usage examples of "agglomeration".

The very persistence of the clan organization shows how utterly false it is to represent primitive mankind as a disorderly agglomeration of individuals, who only obey their individual passions, and take advantage of their personal force and cunningness against all other representatives of the species.

A village would be inhabited by a gau, an agglomeration of several sibja groups, combined into a subtribe and headed by a hereditary petty chieftain.

The very first glance at the idea, irradiation, forces us to the entertainment of the hitherto unseparated and seemingly inseparable idea of agglomeration about a centre, with dispersion as we recede from it--the idea, in a word, of inequability of distribution in respect to the matter irradiated.

On the Universal agglomeration and dissolution, we can readily conceive that a new and perhaps totally different series of conditions may ensue--another creation and irradiation, returning into itself--another action and reaction of the Divine Will.

The roughly spherical, ten-million-or-so-light-year-diameter clusters of galaxies themselves turned out to be concentrated in ribbonlike agglomerations termed superclusters, snaking through space for perhaps several hundred million light-years, separated by comparatively empty voids.

Canopy transmuted into something very different: a jumbled agglomeration of freakish crystalline shapes, like something magnified from a geology textbook, or a photomicrograph of a fantastically adapted virus.

American imperialism was not a rationalized, planned effort, but a fortuitous agglomeration resulting from an imperialistic instinct at work against weak opposition, and with a background of luck.

Tents were thickly scattered among the buttes, an agglomeration and tumult of peoples.

And the Flenser state would not be a mindless agglomeration grubbing about in some jungle.

We remark the fact that in the higher of these agglomerations of condensed vapour, the clouds which float at an elevation of from twenty to thirty thousand feet or more, the masses are generally thin, and arranged more or less in a leaflike form, though even here a tendency to produce spherical clouds is apparent.

With a unanimity which seems almost incomprehensible, and for a long time was not understood by historians, the urban agglomerations, down to the smallest burgs, began to shake off the yoke of their worldly and clerical lords.

New economical and social institutions, in so far as they were a creation of the masses, new ethical systems, and new religions, all have originated from the same source, and the ethical progress of our race, viewed in its broad lines, appears as a gradual extension of the mutual-aid principles from the tribe to always larger and larger agglomerations, so as to finally embrace one day the whole of mankind, without respect to its divers creeds, languages, and races.

Vast agglomerations of money are deployed to publish and promote liberal authors.

On the continents were agglomerations the size of large terrestrial metropolises.

Light spilled through the bends of the coil at odd angles and odder wavelengths, a flow of molten crystals, an agglomeration of colors, a sudden transparency that wavered, disappeared, re-emerged larger than before, grew to cover the magical creation within the coils, and the ship vanished, the gaudy display cut off as abruptly as if someone had thrown a master switch and plunged the show in darkness.