agglomerate

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  1. transitive and intransitive verb To form or collect into a rounded mass.
  2. adjective Gathered into a rounded mass.
  3. noun A confused or jumbled mass; a heap.

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  • In conventional catalysts, exposure to hot exhaust gases causes the precious metal particles to agglomerate into larger clumps, which reduces their effective surface area and catalytic activity. —  Daily automotive news and comment - from just-auto.com
  • An excellent corporation must have cultures which agglomerate its people to achieve the same goal. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • On the Internet, it is easy to speak out and the speeches of individual netizens can agglomerate into very influential "Internet incidents." —  Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China
  • Slide 1: Che5 7 0 0 陶瓷粉末處理 造粒 Granulation To produce free flowing particles for further processing;  often after powder synthesis and before forming of products, may need to add binder / wetting agent to keep small particles together, (but not to form hard agglomerate), semi-dry granule. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Description The DAVID Knowledgebase is built around the DAVID Gene Concept, a single-linkage method to agglomerate tens of millions of gene / protein identifiers from a variety of public genomic resources into DAVID gene clusters. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin agglomerāre, agglomerāt-, to mass together : ad-, ad- + glomerāre, to form into a ball (from glomus, glomer-, ball).

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  1. from Latin agglomeratus, past participle of agglomerare, adglomerare, wind into a ball, from ad, to, + glomerare, wind into a ball, from glomus (glomer-), a ball, akin to globus, a ball: see globe. Cf. conglomerate.
  2. from Latin agglomeratus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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/æˈglɑmərət/
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