agglomerate

Meaning

Adj

collected into a ball, heap, or mass

Noun

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.

Verb

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

Synonyms

agglomeration

mass

gather

pile

cumulate

clustered

heap

conglomerate

aggregate

cumulation

accumulate

cumulus

fuse

amass

agglomerated

mound

collect

agglomerative

sinter ore

aggregation

backlog

cluster

congest

congregate

drift

garner

hoard

join

lumping

pile up

segregate

sinter cake

sintering ore

agglomerated cake

lump sinter

accrue

Translations

aglomerar

agglomérer

aglomerado

agglomerieren

zusammenballen

aglomerar

agglomerare

agglomérat

zusammenhäufen

agglomeraat

Agglomerat

συσσωρεύω

agglomereren

samenballing

Ballungsraum

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈɡlɒm(ə)ɹət/

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”).