Verb breakfast cereal consisting of agglomerated clusters of wheat, rice, and nuts stays crunchy in milk Noun the Holy Roman Empire was an ever-varying agglomerate of central European states that managed to survive for 1,000 years
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
But Krugman leads us further astray by agglomerating his data by state without noting the finer demographic points that might tell a different story. Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 10 Dec. 2019 The first human brain balls—aka cortical spheroids, aka neural organoids—agglomerated into existence just a few short years ago. Megan Molteni, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2018
Noun
The merger between Penguin Random House (itself an agglomerate of two giant publishing corporations) and Simon & Schuster, for example, came as a result of the publishing industry’s ongoing struggles with Amazon. Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2020
Word History
Etymology
Verb
borrowed from Latin agglomerātus, past participle of agglomerāre "to heap up, mass together, join forces," from ad-ad- + glomerāre "to form into a ball, collect into a mass," verbal derivative of glomer-, glomus "ball-shaped mass" — more at clam entry 1
Adjective
borrowed from Latin agglomerātus, past participle of agglomerāre "to heap up, mass together" — more at agglomerate entry 1
Noun
borrowed from Latin agglomerātus, past participle of agglomerāre "to heap up, mass together" — more at agglomerate entry 1