Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a tendency to agglomerate or gather together.
- In sociology, tending to combine small social groups into larger organizations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections.
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- adjective Having a tendency to
agglomerate
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- adjective clustered together but not coherent
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Examples
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America has seen many great agglomerative clusters in its history that have helped fuel the American dream.
Michael Moynihan: The Secret Sauce of Economic Growth Michael Moynihan 2011
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America has seen many great agglomerative clusters in its history that have helped fuel the American dream.
Michael Moynihan: The Secret Sauce of Economic Growth Michael Moynihan 2011
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According to a different sort of theory, the agglomerative theory, goodness simpliciter is just what you get by
Value Theory Schroeder, Mark 2008
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Thirdly, he sins from time to time by being obscure, fragmentary, and agglomerative -- giving long strings of successive and detached items, not, however, devoid of a certain primitive effectiveness.
Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855
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Herschel ascribes these openings or starless regions to the attractive and agglomerative forcesof the marginal groups.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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The approach relies on recently developed spectral and agglomerative techniques for identifying hierarchical organization in dynamical systems.
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The approach relies on recently developed spectral and agglomerative techniques for identifying hierarchical organization in dynamical systems.
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Nagi, on the other hand, comes from an ancient religion, which is not so monolithic in itself, “Shintoism” being an agglomerative representation of many tribal religions.
Anime Nano! 2009
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We used hierarchical agglomerative clustering with average linkage with a custom specificity profile (PWM) distance metric, defined below.
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We used hierarchical agglomerative clustering with average linkage with a custom specificity profile (PWM) distance metric, defined below.
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