agglomeration

ag·glom·er·a·tion | \ ə-ˌglä-mə-ˈrā-shən

Definition of agglomeration

1 : the action or process of collecting in a mass the agglomeration of matter into stars and galaxies

2 : a heap or cluster of usually disparate (see disparate sense 1) elements … an agglomeration of 100-year-old cottages with gingerbread scroll-saw ornamentation.— Ira Henry Freeman

3 : a large, densely and contiguously populated area consisting of a city and its suburbs an urban agglomeration

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This suburb has become just a vast agglomeration of houses, people, and cars. a mere agglomeration of warring tribes, it was far from being a unified nation

Recent Examples on the Web And a wholesale move out of China looks unfeasible, not least because few other places possess the expertise that agglomerations like Shenzhen have built up over the years. — The Economist, "Taiwan’s computing titans are caught up in the US-China tech war," 6 June 2019 Whereas cities like New York and Washington, D.C., are home to entrenched economic agglomerations that keep high-income professionals tethered to them, even in the face of heavy taxation, Kentucky finds itself in a less favorable position. — Reihan Salam, The Atlantic, "The GOP’s Public-Education Dilemma," 29 May 2018 Far from being primordial units knit together by a pre-political culture, modern nation-states are agglomerations still displaying the fault-lines of the political struggles that produced them. — Daniel Luban, The New Republic, "The Man Behind National Conservatism," 26 July 2019 Don’t expect Silicon Valley to transform itself into an agglomeration of Mozillas anytime soon. — The Economist, "What open-source culture can teach tech titans and their critics," 18 July 2019 There’s a desire to mix tall buildings and shorter ones as a way to let sunlight in and keep the agglomeration of new buildings from overwhelming all of us down below. — John King, SFChronicle.com, "Chiseled glass tower offers window into SF’s contradictions," 18 July 2019 The 117-acre agglomeration of shops, restaurants, office buildings, a movie theater, and waterpark, houses a huge network of sensors and video cameras. — Fortune, "The European Shopping Center Where Technology’s Future Is Being Tracked Today," 14 July 2019 Senior food engineer Ann Barrett, PhD., showed me a technique called sonic agglomeration. — Tyler Kord, Popular Mechanics, "Cooking (and Shrinking) the Modern Combat Ration," 29 June 2019 Last month, Colombia elected its first woman vice-president; Mexico City, the largest urban agglomeration in North America, has just elected its first woman mayor. — Esther Allen, The New York Review of Books, "Returning the Gaze, with a Vengeance," 8 July 2018

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