Dictionary

agglomerate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ɹət/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /əˈɡlɑm(ə)ɹət/ (General-American)
• əglŏ'mərət
• (US) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin glomus, glomeris Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin glomerō Latin agglomerō Latin agglomerātusbor. English agglomerate 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”).

Meanings

1. collected into a ball, heap, or mass

Forms

Synonyms

agglomerated

Translations (1)

la agglomerātus (Translations)

agglomerate en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ɹət/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /əˈɡlɑm(ə)ɹət/ (General-American)
• əglŏ'mərət
• (US) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin glomus, glomeris Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin glomerō Latin agglomerō Latin agglomerātusbor. English agglomerate 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”).

Meanings

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

Forms

Deriveds

heteroagglomerate · agglomeratic

Synonyms

mass (collection or mass) · collection (collection or mass) · agglomeration (collection or mass)

Translations (6)

pl aglomerat (geology) · nl agglomeraat (geology) · pl aglomerat (collection or mass) · cmn 集塊岩 /集块岩 (geology) · nl agglomeraat (collection or mass) · la agglomerātus (collection or mass)

agglomerate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ˌɹeɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• əglŏ'mərāt
• /əˈɡlɑ.mɚˌeɪt/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin glomus, glomeris Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin glomerō Latin agglomerō Latin agglomerātusbor. English agglomerate 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”).

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
   • It feels like doing eighty on the freeway / as little towns agglomerate and blur: 2009, Peter Campion, “Imperium”, in The Lions, University of Chicago Press, page 14:
   • The bustle of a croud is not ill-adapted to the pencil: but the management of it requires great artifice. The whole must be massed together, and considered as one body. ¶ I mean not to have the whole body so agglomerated, as to consist of no detached groups: but to have these groups […] appear to belong to one whole, by the artifice of composition, and the effect of light. 1789, William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye: and Several Parts of South Wales, 2nd edition, London: R. Blamire, Section 10, p. 122:
   • There were few white friends in the social life of the peasants. The white colony agglomerated in the towns and the peasants were 80 per cent of a population of a million. 1937, Claude McKay, chapter 3, in A Long Way from Home, New York: Arno Press, published 1969, page 35:
   • 1820, William Hazlitt, “Explanations—Conversation on the Drama with Coleridge” in Dramatic Essays London: Scott, 1895, p. 197, 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.
2. 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).

Forms

Deriveds

deagglomerate · reagglomerate · disagglomerate · heteroagglomerate

Relateds

agglomeration · agglomerative

Synonyms

merge · orb (collect into a ball) · gather · amass (gather into a mass) · bundle up (collect into a ball) · ball (collect into a ball) · gather up · ball up (collect into a ball) · globe (collect into a ball) · conglobe (collect into a ball) · pile up · coalesce · clew (collect into a ball) · wind (collect into a ball) · conglobate (collect into a ball)

Translations (4)

es aglomerar (transitive) · pl aglomerować (transitive) · la agglomerō (transitive) · es aglomerarse (intransitive)