conglobationn.
/kɒnɡləʊˈbeɪʃən/ 1. The action of gathering or forming into a globe or rounded mass. Also figurative.
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1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. 270 If hee hath committed various offences, the Conglobation and annumeration of them..cannot but stirre vp..the auditors to abhorre him.
a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 152 A piece of Wax..rolled together into the form of a Globe, loses something of its former Extension, by this its conglobation.
1882 J. B. Stallo Concepts Mod. Physics 279 The rotatory velocity [of the planets]..at the moment of their detachment and conglobation.
2. A rounded formation, a conglomeration.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity > sphere > spherical or globular mass
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xiii. 138 In this spawne..are to be discerned many gray specks, or little conglobations.
a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1718) III. 185 A huge Stone, (a Conglobation of Gravel and Sand).
1788 N. Tucker tr. E. Swedenborg Wisdom of Angels iii. §207 Successive Compositions, or Confasciations and Conglobations from simple Things.
1854 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 21 454 That heterogeneous conglobation, that.. multi-mosaic monarchy.
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