agglomerate
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agglomerate
- /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ɹət/ UK
- /əˈɡlɑm(ə)ɹət/ US
- /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ˌɹeɪt/ UK
- /əˈɡlɑ.mɚˌeɪt/ US
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Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Latin glomus, glomeris
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
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”).
adjective more agglomerate · most agglomerate
- collected into a ball, heap, or mass
noun agglomerates
- A collection or mass.
- A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
- An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.
verb agglomerates · agglomerating · agglomerated
- To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. The bustle of a croud is not ill-adapted to the pencil: but the management of it requires great artifice. The whole must be massed together, and considered as one body. ¶ I mean not to have the whole body so agglomerated, as to consist of no detached groups: but to have these groups […] appear to be
- 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).
