AGGLOMERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agglomeration mean? 

• AGGLOMERATION (noun)
  The noun AGGLOMERATION has 2 senses:

1. a jumbled collection or mass

2. the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating

  Familiarity information: AGGLOMERATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGGLOMERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A jumbled collection or mass

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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

Now, astronomers studying a globular cluster have found just such a black hole at its center, showing that intermediate-mass black holes could be hiding out in these compact agglomerations of stars.

(Elusive Middleweight Black Hole Found at Center of Giant Star Cluster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The whole agglomeration of things—the ship steered into port by a dead man; his attitude, tied to the wheel with a crucifix and beads; the touching funeral; the dog, now furious and now in terror—will all afford material for her dreams.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)