glomerationn.
/ɡlɒməˈreɪʃən/ rare.
The process of forming into a ball or rounded mass; in wider sense, a heaping together, agglomeration, aggregation; also quasi-concrete, a cluster of things compactly gathered together.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > composite collectiveness > agglomeration or conglomeration
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1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §832 The Raine-Bow consisteth of a Glomeration of Small Drops.
1812 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 68 The eyes were struck with momentary blindness, and the ears stunned with the glomeration of sounds.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 300 The term glomeration, or ‘heaping into a ball’, in the generic definition, is preferred to the more common terms protuberance or extuberance.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 238 The cyst, or rather the glomeration of cysts, weighed nine pounds.
1840 T. De Quincey Casuistry in Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 265/2 Like the glomeration of moonbeams upon moonbeams.
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