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noun

Agglomerate n.

A collection or mass.

(Geol.) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.

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Etymology of 'Agglomerate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... duly made; the golden marks were put into a crucible, with a quantity of salt, copperas, aquafortis, egg-shells, mercury, lead, and dung. The alchymists watched this precious mess with intense interest, expecting that it would agglomerate into one lump of pure gold. At the end of three weeks they gave up the trial, upon some excuse that the crucible was not strong enough, or that some necessary ingredient was wanting. Whether any thief had put ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay

... alto-stratus, and for 3 degrees above the horizon there is a grey belt looking like a blizzard of drift, but this in reality is caused by a constant fall of minute snow crystals, very minute. Sometimes instead of crystal plates the fall is of minute agglomerate spicules like tiny sea-urchins. The plates glitter in the sun as though of some size, but you can only just see them as pin-points on your burberry. So the spicule collections are only just visible. Our hands are never warm enough in camp to do any neat work now. The weather is always uncomfortably ...

— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Words linked to "Agglomerate" : agglomerator, stack, stockpile, midden, muckheap, pyre, assemblage, scrapheap, cumulation, heap, aggregation, bunch, cumulus, woodpile, compost pile, agglomerative, volcanic rock, compost heap, muckhill, shock, slagheap, mound, pile