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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Agglomerate  \Ag*glom"er*ate\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p. 
  {Agglomerated};  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Agglomerating}.]  [L. 
  agglomeratus  p.  p.  of  agglomerare  ad  +  glomerare  to  form 
  into  a  ball.  See  {Glomerate}.] 
  To  wind  or  collect  into  a  ball;  hence  to  gather  into  a  mass 
  or  anything  like  a  mass. 
 
  Where  he  builds  the  agglomerated  pile.  --Cowper. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Agglomerate  \Ag*glom"er*ate\,  v.  i. 
  To  collect  in  a  mass. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Agglomerate  \Ag*glom"er*ate\,  Agglomerated  \Ag*glom"er*a`ted\, 
  a. 
  1.  Collected  into  a  ball,  heap,  or  mass. 
 
  2.  (Bot.)  Collected  into  a  rounded  head  of  flowers. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Agglomerate  \Ag*glom"er*ate\,  n. 
  1.  A  collection  or  mass. 
 
  2.  (Geol.)  A  mass  of  angular  volcanic  fragments  united  by 
  heat;  --  distinguished  from  conglomerate. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  agglomerate 
  adj  :  clustered  together  but  not  coherent;  "an  agglomerated  flower 
  head  [syn:  {agglomerated},  {agglomerative},  {clustered}] 
  v  :  form  into  one  cluster 




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