单词 | conglobation |
释义 | conglobationn. 1. The action of gathering or forming into a globe or rounded mass. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > composite collectiveness > agglomeration or conglomeration > into a rounded mass conglobation1604 conglobulation1923 the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity > sphere > spherical or globular mass > formation of conglobation1604 balling1731 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. 270 If hee hath committed various offences, the Conglobation and annumeration of them..cannot but stirre vp..the auditors to abhorre him. a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 152 A piece of Wax..rolled together into the form of a Globe, loses something of its former Extension, by this its conglobation. 1882 J. B. Stallo Concepts Mod. Physics 279 The rotatory velocity [of the planets]..at the moment of their detachment and conglobation. 2. A rounded formation, a conglomeration. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity > sphere > spherical or globular mass clewc897 ballc1275 conglobation1646 conglomeration1662 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xiii. 138 In this spawne..are to be discerned many gray specks, or little conglobations. a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1718) III. 185 A huge Stone, (a Conglobation of Gravel and Sand). 1788 N. Tucker tr. E. Swedenborg Wisdom of Angels iii. §207 Successive Compositions, or Confasciations and Conglobations from simple Things. 1854 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 21 454 That heterogeneous conglobation, that.. multi-mosaic monarchy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1604 |
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