The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. The act or process of gathering into a mass.
n. A confused or jumbled mass: "To avoid the problems of large urban agglomerations, the state decentralized the university system” ( Bickley Townsend).
n. The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
n. State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
n. An extended city area comprising the built-up area of a central city and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
n. State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The act of agglomerating or the state of being agglomerated; the state of gathering or being gathered into a mass.
n. That which is agglomerated; a collection; a heap; any mass, assemblage, or cluster formed by mere juxtaposition.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. a jumbled collection or mass
n. the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating
Word Usage
"The result of this agglomeration is a reassessment of eighteenth-century connections between practical techniques, philosophical ideas, and the cultures in which they resided."