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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of heaping, or the state of being heaped together or piled up.
  • noun In logic, a chain-syllogism; sorites.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A heaping together.

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  • noun The separation of a colloidal system into two liquid phases, one of which (the coacervate) is more concentrated in the colloid component

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