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Agglomerate   Listen
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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."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Agglomerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... particles of water which form the cloud must collect into sensible drops large enough to fall to the earth. Two steps are therefore necessary to the formation of rain: the transparent aqueous vapor in the air must be condensed into clouds, and the material of the clouds must agglomerate into raindrops. ...
— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb

... borrow their quota from their patron. The grand experiment was 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 his hands into the crucible is not known, but it is certain that the gold found therein ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay



Words linked to "Agglomerate" :   clustered, pyre, bunch up, aggregation, midden, cumulus, collective, bundle, mound, cluster, funeral pyre, volcanic rock, accumulation, agglomerator, collection, pile, agglomerated, shock, muckhill, bunch, woodpile, scrapheap, agglomerative, cumulation, stack, slagheap, assemblage, stockpile, compost pile, dunghill, compost heap, muckheap



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