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glomeration rare.|glɒməˈreɪʃən|
[ad. L. glomerātiōn-em, n. of action f. glomerāre: see prec.]
The process of forming into a ball or rounded mass; in wider sense, a heaping together, agglomeration, aggregation; also quasi-concr., a cluster of things compactly gathered together.
1626Bacon Sylva §832 The Raine-Bow consisteth of a Glomeration of Small Drops. 1812Chron. in Ann. Reg. 68 The eyes were struck with momentary blindness, and the ears stunned with the glomeration of sounds. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 226 The term glomeration or ‘heaping into a ball’, in the generic definition is preferred to the more common terms protuberance or extuberance. Ibid. 238 The cyst, or rather the glomeration of cysts, weighed nine pounds. 1839–40De Quincey Casuistry Wks. VIII. 298 Like the glomeration of moonbeams upon moonbeams. |