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Entry 6 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Agglomerate

/əglŏ'mərət/ · Ag·glom·er·ate · IPA /əˈɡlɑm(ə)ɹət/
01 v. t. To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
imp. & p. p. Agglomerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Agglomerating
  1. 1.
    To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
    “Where he builds the agglomerated pile.” — Cowper.
02 v. i. To collect in a mass.
  1. 1.
    To collect in a mass.
03 a. Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.
  1. 1.
    Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.
  2. 2.
    Collected into a rounded head of flowers.(Bot.)
04 n. A collection or mass.
  1. 1.
    A collection or mass.
  2. 2.
    A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate.(Geol.)