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Agglomerated   Listen
verb
Agglomerate  v. t.  (past & past part. agglomerated; pres. part. agglomerating)  To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. "Where he builds the agglomerated pile."


Agglomerate  v. i.  To collect in a mass.


adjective
Agglomerated, Agglomerate  adj.  
1.
Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.
2.
(Bot.) Collected into a rounded head of flowers.


agglomerated  adj.  
1.
Clustered together but not coherent. "An agglomerated flower head"
Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerative, aggregate, clustered.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Agglomerated" Quotes from Famous Books



... limits, or in the shape of nebulae, and pass to those portions of the universe which are condensed into solid spheres or spheroids, we approach a class of phenomena exclusively designated as stars or as the sidereal universe. Here, too, we find different degrees of solidity or density in the agglomerated matter. ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various
... driving darkly through a vast storm of words. Such revelations, no doubt, come closer to reality than the poignant epigrams of Racine. In life, men's minds are not sharpened, they are diffused, by emotion; and the utterance which best represents them is fluctuating and agglomerated rather than compact and defined. But Racine's aim was less to reflect the actual current of the human spirit than to seize upon its inmost being and to give expression to that. One might be tempted to ...
— Books and Characters - French and English • Lytton Strachey
... hands and soles of the feet, may be invaded. In occasional cases when the development of tubercles upon the face and ears is extensive, there may not be more than from five to fifty upon the rest of the body, and these either widely scattered and isolated or agglomerated in a single hard, flat, elevated plaque of infiltration upon the elbow or thigh. When the tubercles run together (become confluent) large plaques of infiltration may form, which are elevated and brownish ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... alluvial action from the layers of salt which occur interstratified in the surrounding mountains ("Journal of Researches" page 444 first edition.): but from the interesting details given by M. d'Orbigny, and from finding on a fresh examination of this agglomerated sand, that it is not irregularly cemented, but consists of thin layers of sand of different tints of colour, alternating with excessively fine parallel layers of salt, I conclude that it is not of alluvial origin. M. d'Orbigny observed analogous saline beds extending from Cobija for five ...
— South American Geology - also: - Title: Geological Observations On South America • Charles Darwin
... pleasure to the eye or exhilaration to the mind. It was of the dreariest description. Days and days passed with hardly a house to be seen, or a tree or a blade of grass. I might even add, or a mountain or a river, for the one was too often a heap of agglomerated sand and clay cut into unsightly chasms by the rain, and the other generally degenerated into a mere stagnant swamp, its shallowness and dryness increasing regularly with its length. The only houses were log ...
— All Around the Moon • Jules Verne


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