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▪ I. agglomerate, v.|əˈglɒməreɪt|
[f. L. agglomerāt- ppl. stem of agglomerā-re, f. ag- = ad- to + glomerā-re to wind or gather into a ball; f. glomus -er-is a clew, clue, or ball. Cf. mod.Fr. agglomérer, which may be immed. source of the Eng.]
†1. trans. To wind or roll into a ball. Obs.
1692Coles, Agglomerate, to rowl together. 1721Bailey, Agglomerate, to roll or wind up into a bottom. [Whence in Johnson.]
2. trans. To gather together in a rounded mass, to combine mechanically without any adaptation of parts; to cluster or heap together.
1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 229 The Bloud is eventilated, and the hot particles agglomerated. 1751Johnson Ramb. 108 ⁋5 If we would know the amount of moments we must agglomerate them into days and weeks. 1873Farrar Fam. Speech ii. 44 To agglomerate a number of words without inflection or synthesis. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th c. II. ix. 636 Working men..were agglomerated by thousands in great towns. 1879G. Gladstone in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 18/1 It cannot be put into the furnace without being first agglomerated into lumps.
3. intr. To collect in a mass. lit. and fig.
1730Thomson Autumn 766 The hard agglomerating salts, The spoil of ages, would impervious choke Their secret channels. 1847J. Wilson Chr. North I. 257 The heart and the imagination can agglomerate around them. 1869in Eng. Mech. 7 May 147/3 The heated stratum of air agglomerates to an ‘igneous globe.’
▪ II. agglomerate, ppl. a. and n.|əˈglɒmərət|
[ad. L. agglomerāt-us: see prec.]
A. adj. Gathered into a ball or cluster, or in Bot. into a rounded head of flowers; collected into a mass.
1828Kirby & Spence Entomol. IV. xlii. 155 They are divided into agglomerate ovaries and branching ovaries. 1858Gray Bot. Text-bk. 395 Agglomerate, heaped or crowded into a dense cluster, but not cohering. 1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie III. iv. 73 The sudden dispersion of its [a Scotch congregation's] agglomerate particles.
B. n. [The adj. used absol.]
1. A collection or mass of things rudely or loosely thrown or huddled together.
1831Edin. Rev. LIV. 378 A general agglomerate of all facts. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. I. iii. xiii. 216 This Duchy of Cleve, all this fine agglomerate of Duchies.
2. Geol. A mass consisting of volcanic or eruptive fragments, which have united under the action of heat; as opposed to a conglomerate, composed of waterworn fragments, united by some substance in aqueous solution.
1830Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) II. ii. xxvii. 72 This great overlying deposit..is a white tufaceous agglomerate. 1881Geikie in Nature No. 626. 606 The lavas and their associated agglomerates. |