Hypertext Webster Gateway: "agglomerate"
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) 1.7 (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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