agglomerate

== English == === Etymology === From Latin agglomerātus, past participle of agglomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from ad- (“to”) + glomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”). === Pronunciation === Adjective, noun: enPR: əglŏ'mərət (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ɹət/ (General American) IPA(key): /əˈɡlɑm(ə)ɹət/ Verb: enPR: əglŏ'mərāt (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ˌɹeɪt/ (General American) IPA(key): /əˈɡlɑ.mɚˌeɪt/ === Adjective === agglomerate (comparative more agglomerate, superlative most agglomerate) collected into a ball, heap, or mass ==== Synonyms ==== agglomerated ==== Translations ==== === Noun === agglomerate (plural agglomerates) A collection or mass. (geology, volcanology) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate. (meteorology) An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice. ==== Synonyms ==== (collection or mass): agglomeration, collection, mass ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === agglomerate (third-person singular simple present agglomerates, present participle agglomerating, simple past and past participle agglomerated) (ambitransitive) To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. 1820, William Hazlitt, “Explanations—Conversation on the Drama with Coleridge” in Dramatic Essays London: Scott, 1895, p. 197,[2] His [Jean Racine’s] tragedies are not poetry, are not passion, are not imagination: they are a parcel of set speeches, of epigrammatic conceits, of declamatory phrases, without any of the glow, and glancing rapidity, and principle of fusion in the mind of the poet, to agglomerate them into grandeur, or blend them into harmony. (geography) To extend an urban area by contiguous development, so as to merge the built-up area of one or more central cities or settlements and their suburbs (thus creating an agglomeration). ==== 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 ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== agglomeration agglomerative ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === “agglomerate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “agglomerate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “agglomerate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Italian == === Etymology 1 === ==== Verb ==== agglomerate inflection of agglomerare: second-person plural present indicative second-person plural imperative === Etymology 2 === ==== Participle ==== agglomerate f pl feminine plural of agglomerato == Latin == === Verb === agglomerāte second-person plural present active imperative of agglomerō