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Accumulation into a single entity, such as a holding company, of several diverse and unrelated activities. Conglomerate companies are examples of agglomeration.

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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.

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A group of things gathered haphazardly: bank, cumulus, drift, heap, hill, mass, mess, mound, mountain, pile, shock, stack, tumble. See order/disorder.

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.

The collecting together of tiny suspended particles into a mass of larger size, one which will settle more rapidly.

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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.

IN BRIEF: A mass or ball of material.

Before she rolled it, Teresa's pie crust looked like a messy agglomeration.

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The forming of a larger mass by causing a substance like a liquid to combine with another ingredient like a powder. Agglomeration is used for many reasons, such as instantization, particulate formation, bulk density adjustment, physical appearance, etc. See Spray Drying, Dehydration.

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