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agglomeration|əˌglɒməˈreɪʃən|
[ad. L. agglomerātiōn-em, n. of action f. agglomerā-re: see agglomerate v. Cf. mod.Fr. agglomération, perh. the immed. source of the Eng.]
1. The action of collecting in a mass, or of heaping together.
1774T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. 223 (T.) An excessive agglomeration of turrets..is one of the characteristick marks of the florid mode of architecture. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VII. lix. 218 The Jews have grown into a nation by the agglomeration of the worst of men from all quarters. 1874Helps Soc. Press. ii. 18 The agglomeration of too many people on one spot of ground.
2. A mass formed by mere mechanical union or approximation; an unmethodical assemblage; a clustering or cluster.
1833Carlyle Misc. (1857) III. 192 Formless, blundering Agglomerations. 1859Jephson Brittany xiii. 215 It was an agglomeration of forbidding-looking granite houses. 1866Liddon Bampt. Lect. viii. (1875) 494 Society is an agglomeration of self-loving beings. 1869Dunkin Midn. Sky 181 Orion is perhaps the finest agglomeration of stars to be found in any portion of the heavens. |