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AGGLOMERATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("agglomeration" is a kind of...):
aggregation; assembling; collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("agglomeration" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agglomeration"):
bunch; clump; cluster; clustering (a grouping of a number of similar things)
ball; chunk; clod; clump; glob; lump (a compact mass)