Definitions

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  • noun uncountable The condition of being clumpy
  • noun countable A clump

Etymologies

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clumpy +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • "Many times it takes liquid water to make the soils clumpy like that," he said, adding the clumpiness could be a result of electrostatic forces.

    Universe Today 2009

  • This is because massive neutrinos fall into the general cosmological category of "hot dark matter," which tends to smear out the "clumpiness" of the early universe.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • This early "clumpiness", however, is contradicted by the smoothness of the cosmic microwave background, or "echo" of the Big Bang.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Large structures such as the Great Wall are too large to have formed as a result of gravity since the Big Bang, unless a significant amount of "clumpiness" was present at the origin of the universe.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • You could think of this as a "clumpiness" metric (it is technically called the

    Raph's Website 2009

  • There is some truth to what Buckhunter stated ... feces composition and clumpiness is related to what deer are eating, and throughout the year, bucks and does may feed on very different items, which can make a buck's poo distinguishable from a doe's poo, but to positively identify a pile of poo as coming from buck or a doe 100% of the time is impossible.

    Is it possible to tell a buck from a doe, just by its droppings? 2009

  • There is some truth to what Buckhunter stated ... feces composition and clumpiness is related to what deer are eating, and throughout the year, bucks and does may feed on very different items, which can make a buck's poo distinguishable from a doe's poo, but to positively identify a pile of poo as coming from buck or a doe 100% of the time is impossible.

    Is it possible to tell a buck from a doe, just by its droppings? 2009

  • So if there's sufficent clumpiness in either Richarson or Biden's support they could very possibly reel in a few too.

    Richardson Mailer Attacks Hillary, Edwards, And Obama On Iraq 2009

  • But this obviously does not imply that clumpiness was a character that appeared in a common ancestor from which all multicellular forms descended.

    The Origin of Form Was Abrupt Not Gradual 2008

  • He explained how the physical constants give our universe just the right amount of clumpiness so that time can flow, and he presented an alternative theory – consistent with quantum mechanics – on how universes can bear “babies” with differing constants.

    Archive 2008-10-01 David Cowan 2008

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