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English

Alternative forms

• aglomerate

Etymology

From Latin agglomerare (“to wind into a ball”), from ad (“to”) + glomerare (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”).

Pronunciation

• Adjective, noun:
  • AHD: ?gl?'m?r?t
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???l?m(?)??t/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /???l?m(?)??t/
• Verb:
  • AHD: ?gl?'m?r?t
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???l?m(?)??e?t/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /???l?.m??e?t/

Adjective

agglomerate (comparative more agglomerate, superlative most agglomerate)

1. collected into a ball, heap, or mass

Synonyms

• agglomerated

Noun

agglomerate (plural agglomerates)

1. A collection or mass.
2. (geology) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
3. (meteorology) An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.

Synonyms

• (collection or mass): agglomeration, collection, mass

Verb

agglomerate (third-person singular simple present agglomerates, present participle agglomerating, simple past and past participle agglomerated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.

Synonyms

• (collect into a ball): ball, ball up, bundle up, clew, conglobate, conglobe, globe, orb, wind
• (gather into a mass): amass, gather, gather up, merge, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up or Thesaurus:coalesce

Further reading

• agglomerate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• agglomerate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• agglomerate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

agglomerate

1. second-person plural present indicative of agglomerare
2. second-person plural imperative of agglomerare
3. feminine plural of agglomerato

Latin

Verb

agglomer?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of agglomer?