agglomeration

See also: agglomération and Agglomeration

English

Etymology

From agglomerate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

agglomeration (countable and uncountable, plural agglomerations)

1. The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
2. State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
3. (geography) An extended city area comprising the built-up area of a central city and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area.
4. (geology) A mass of large volcanic fragments bonded under heat.

Derived terms

• agglomerational
• deagglomeration
• disagglomeration
• heteroagglomeration
• homoagglomeration
• reagglomeration
• wiglomeration

 

Translations

act of collecting in a mass

• Bulgarian: струпване (bg) (strupvane), натрупване (bg) (natrupvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 結塊／结块 (jiékuài)

• Czech: aglomerace (cs) f
• Dutch: agglomeratie (nl) f
• Esperanto: aglomero
• Finnish: agglomeraatio
• French: agglomération (fr) f
• German: Sammlung (de) f
• Hebrew: הִתְגַּיְּשׁוּת
• Indonesian: aglomerasi (id)
• Polish: aglomeracja (pl) f
• Portuguese: aglomeração (pt) f
• Romanian: aglomerație (ro) f
• Russian: агломера́ция (ru) f (aglomerácija), спека́ние (ru) n (spekánije), скопле́ние (ru) n (skoplénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: aglomeracija (sh) f
• Spanish: aglomeración (es) f
• Swedish: hopgyttring

state of being collected in a mass

• Bulgarian: агломерат (aglomerat)
• Czech: aglomerace (cs) f
• Dutch: agglomeratie (nl) f
• Esperanto: aglomero
• Finnish: agglomeraatio
• French: agglomération (fr) f
• German: Ansammlung (de) f
• Indonesian: aglomerasi (id)
• Manx: bluckanys m
• Polish: aglomeracja (pl) f
• Portuguese: aglomeração (pt) f
• Romanian: aglomerație (ro) f
• Russian: агломера́т (ru) m (aglomerát), скопле́ние (ru) n (skoplénije), агломера́ция (ru) f (aglomerácija)
• Serbo-Croatian: aglomeracija (sh) f
• Spanish: aglomeración (es) f

extended city area

• Bulgarian: конгломерат (bg) (konglomerat)
• Dutch: agglomeratie (nl) f
• Finnish: agglomeraatio
• French: agglomération (fr) f
• German: Ballungsraum (de) m
• Indonesian: aglomerasi (id)
• Polish: aglomeracja (pl) f
• Romanian: aglomerație (ro) f
• Russian: конгломера́т (ru) m (konglomerát), агломера́ция (ru) f (aglomerácija)
• Spanish: aglomeración (es) f