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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a tendency to agglomerate or gather together.
  • In sociology, tending to combine small social groups into larger organizations.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections.

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  • adjective Having a tendency to agglomerate

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  • adjective clustered together but not coherent

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Examples

  • America has seen many great agglomerative clusters in its history that have helped fuel the American dream.

    Michael Moynihan: The Secret Sauce of Economic Growth Michael Moynihan 2011

  • America has seen many great agglomerative clusters in its history that have helped fuel the American dream.

    Michael Moynihan: The Secret Sauce of Economic Growth Michael Moynihan 2011

  • According to a different sort of theory, the agglomerative theory, goodness simpliciter is just what you get by

    Value Theory Schroeder, Mark 2008

  • Thirdly, he sins from time to time by being obscure, fragmentary, and agglomerative -- giving long strings of successive and detached items, not, however, devoid of a certain primitive effectiveness.

    Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855

  • Herschel ascribes these openings or starless regions to the attractive and agglomerative forcesof the marginal groups.

    COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • The approach relies on recently developed spectral and agglomerative techniques for identifying hierarchical organization in dynamical systems.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • The approach relies on recently developed spectral and agglomerative techniques for identifying hierarchical organization in dynamical systems.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • Nagi, on the other hand, comes from an ancient religion, which is not so monolithic in itself, “Shintoism” being an agglomerative representation of many tribal religions.

    Anime Nano! 2009

  • We used hierarchical agglomerative clustering with average linkage with a custom specificity profile (PWM) distance metric, defined below.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2008

  • We used hierarchical agglomerative clustering with average linkage with a custom specificity profile (PWM) distance metric, defined below.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2008

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