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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 2) 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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Examples of agglomeration in a Sentence
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
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About 200 million years ago, the supercontinent of Gondwana—essentially an an agglomeration of Africa, South America, India, Australia and Antarctica—began slowly ripping apart into the continents recognizable today.
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Origin and Etymology of agglomeration
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: a large group, collection, or pile of different things
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