单词 | agglomeration |
释义 | agglomeration (once / 19898 pages) n The word agglomeration is quite an agglomeration of letters, a big bunch of them. Inside of agglomeration you see the word glom which means to become stuck or attached to something. An agglomeration is a bunch of stuff that has glommed onto each other. Try not to confuse the word with abomination which is an awful and reprehensible thing. If you had an agglomeration of abominations, you'd have more than a handful of hateful objects. WORD FAMILYagglomeration: agglomerations+/agglomerate: agglomerated, agglomerates, agglomerating, agglomeration, agglomerative USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s a racist, white-nationalist, pseudo-intellectual agglomeration of cranks and bigots that now has a direct line to the Oval Office. Salon(Nov 29, 2016) Not much more than a century ago the Russian empire was a ramshackle agglomeration of colonies, held together by military force and hooch. The Guardian(Nov 02, 2016) “It’s coming from down there,” said one of the boys, kite string in hand, pointing to the sprawling agglomeration of dwellings below. New York Times(Aug 16, 2016) 1n the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating Hyper aggregation, assembling, collecting, collection the act of gathering something together 2n a jumbled collection or mass Exp|Hypo|Hyper Northern Cross a cluster of 5 bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus Omega Centauria global cluster in the constellation Centaurus Pleiadesa star cluster in the constellation Taurus bunch, clump, cluster, clustering a grouping of a number of similar things ball, chunk, clod, clump, glob, lumpa compact mass clot, coaguluma lump of material formed from the content of a liquid knota tight cluster of people or things swada bunch tuft, tussocka bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass goba lump of slimy stuff clewa ball of yarn or cord or thread accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole |
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