
n.
- The act or process of gathering into a mass.
- A confused or jumbled mass: "To avoid the problems of large urban agglomerations, the state decentralized the university system" (Bickley Townsend).
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American Heritage Dictionary:
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Barron's Business Dictionary:
agglomeration |
| Agent, Agency Shop, Agency Disclosure | |
| Aggregate, Aggregate Income, Aggregate Supply |
Oxford Food & Nutrition Dictionary:
agglomeration |
The process of producing a free-flowing, dust-free powder from substances such as dried milk powder and wheat flour, by moistening the powder with droplets of water and then redrying in a stream of air. The resulting agglomerates can readily be wetted.
Roget's Thesaurus:
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Oxford Dictionary of Geography:
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1. A concentration of economic activities in related sectors in a geographical area, brought about by, among others, external economies, such as a pool of skilled labour; increasing returns on scale, cumulative causation, planning by local authorities, and fortuitous events. ‘Silicon Fen’, Cambridgeshire, is a UK example. See agglomeration economies, transactional analysis.
2. In meteorology, the process by which cloud droplets grow by assimilating other droplets. See precipitation.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture & Construction:
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The collecting together of tiny suspended particles into a mass of larger size, one which will settle more rapidly.
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy:
agglomeration |
Principle of deontic logic, named by Bernard Williams. It states that if one ought to do A and ought to do B, then one ought to do both A and B. If it is accepted, it puts pressure on the principle that ‘ought implies can’, since arguably there may arise occasions on which, for instance, I ought to repay A, and ought to repay B, but cannot repay both A and B.
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Wiley Dictionary of Flavors:
Agglomeration |
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| Agglomeration Diseconomies (business term) | |
| synekism |
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| What is agglomeration in geography? | |
| What is agglomeration in chemistry? |
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