agglomerativeadj.

Brit.

/əˈɡlɒm(ə)rətɪv/, U.S.

/əˈɡlɑməˌreɪdɪv/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin agglomerāt- , agglomerāre , -ive suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin agglomerāt-, past participial stem of agglomerāre agglomerate v. + -ive suffix.

1. Of or relating to agglomeration; tending to agglomerate or collect together; clustering.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > gathering, collecting, or coming together > collecting from others rather than producing originally

agglomerative1817

1817 S. T. Coleridge Poems 139 Taylor [is] eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative.

1848 C. Fox Jrnls. (ed. 2) II. 103 His talents rather agglomerative than original.

1876 Leeds Mercury 16 June 4/2 The earthquake in Lisbon..was clearly a judgment against man's agglomerative habits, in massing together in towns, instead of living in isolated huts or tents.

1941 M. A. de Ford They were San Franciscans 18 Around San Francisco, county lines, as well as an absence of the agglomerative spirit, have prevented this consolidation.

1962 R. Bradbury Something Wicked this Way Comes xxiv. 126 This illustrated throng of humanity that in one agglomerative move dominated and filled the immediate air and tent sky with silent shoutings for attention.

1997 Computer Music Jrnl. Summer 26/2 The first experiment evaluated the relative performance of three agglomerative hierarchical clustering system methods: the ‘minimum-link’, maximum-link', and ‘average-link’ methods.

2. Linguistics. Of language, or a language: tending to or characterized by agglutination (agglutination n. 6); = agglutinative adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [adjective] > compound > specific types of compound or compounding

augmentative1641

polysynthetic1816

bahuvrihi1846

polysynthetical1846

agglutinating1847

agglutinative1847

agglomerative1854

parasynthetic1862

endocentric1933

unhyphenated1934

1854 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 8 423 The agglomerative and fluent phonology gives great facility in forming compounds.

1867 N. Amer. Rev. July 36 In indicating syntactical relations by prepositions instead of cases, or by substituting pre-positions for the post-positions of agglomerative languages.

1997 F. Spufford I may be Some Time (1999) vii. 156 The family of Inuit languages is agglomerative... They build famously long compound words.

2005 J. A. Nolazco-Flores et al. in J. S. Marques et al. Pattern Recognition & Image Anal. ii. 597 Náhuatl language is highly agglomerative, which means that words are formed by a root and a high number of prefixes and suffixes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	agglomerative
释义	agglomerativeadj. Brit. /əˈɡlɒm(ə)rətɪv/, U.S. /əˈɡlɑməˌreɪdɪv/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin agglomerāt- , agglomerāre , -ive suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin agglomerāt-, past participial stem of agglomerāre agglomerate v. + -ive suffix. 1. Of or relating to agglomeration; tending to agglomerate or collect together; clustering. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > gathering, collecting, or coming together > collecting from others rather than producing originally agglomerative1817 1817 S. T. Coleridge Poems 139 Taylor [is] eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. 1848 C. Fox Jrnls. (ed. 2) II. 103 His talents rather agglomerative than original. 1876 Leeds Mercury 16 June 4/2 The earthquake in Lisbon..was clearly a judgment against man's agglomerative habits, in massing together in towns, instead of living in isolated huts or tents. 1941 M. A. de Ford They were San Franciscans 18 Around San Francisco, county lines, as well as an absence of the agglomerative spirit, have prevented this consolidation. 1962 R. Bradbury Something Wicked this Way Comes xxiv. 126 This illustrated throng of humanity that in one agglomerative move dominated and filled the immediate air and tent sky with silent shoutings for attention. 1997 Computer Music Jrnl. Summer 26/2 The first experiment evaluated the relative performance of three agglomerative hierarchical clustering system methods: the ‘minimum-link’, maximum-link', and ‘average-link’ methods. 2. Linguistics. Of language, or a language: tending to or characterized by agglutination (agglutination n. 6); = agglutinative adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [adjective] > compound > specific types of compound or compounding augmentative1641 polysynthetic1816 bahuvrihi1846 polysynthetical1846 agglutinating1847 agglutinative1847 agglomerative1854 parasynthetic1862 endocentric1933 unhyphenated1934 1854 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 8 423 The agglomerative and fluent phonology gives great facility in forming compounds. 1867 N. Amer. Rev. July 36 In indicating syntactical relations by prepositions instead of cases, or by substituting pre-positions for the post-positions of agglomerative languages. 1997 F. Spufford I may be Some Time (1999) vii. 156 The family of Inuit languages is agglomerative... They build famously long compound words. 2005 J. A. Nolazco-Flores et al. in J. S. Marques et al. Pattern Recognition & Image Anal. ii. 597 Náhuatl language is highly agglomerative, which means that words are formed by a root and a high number of prefixes and suffixes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1817
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