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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Agglomeration \Ag*glom'er*a"tion\, noun [Cf. F. agglom['e]ration.]
1. The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
An excessive agglomeration of turrets. --Warton.
2. State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
agglomeration
noun
1: a jumbled collection or mass
2: the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "agglomeration": Anschluss, accretion, accumulation, acervation, addition, adherence, adhesion, affiliation, agglomerate, agglutination, aggregate, aggregation, agreement, alliance, amalgamation, amassment, articulation, assimilation, association, blend, blending, bond, bracketing, breccia, bunch, cabal, cartel, centralization, chunk, cling, clinging, clot, clotting, cluster, clustering, coagulation, coalescence, coalition, coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness, collection, colluvies, combination, combine, combo, communication, compaction, composition, concatenation, concourse, concrete, concretion, concurrence, condensation, confederacy, confederation, confluence, congealment, congelation, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, connection, consolidation, conspiracy, convergence, copulation, coupling, cumulation, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, fusion, gathering, glomeration, gob, hoard, hookup, hunk, inclusion, incorporation, inseparability, integration, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, junta, knotting, league, liaison, linkage, linking, lump, marriage, mass, meeting, meld, melding, merger, merging, package, package deal, pairing, set, snowball, solidification, splice, sticking, stockpile, symbiosis, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, trove, unification, union, wad, wedding, yoking
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