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Aggregates vs Agglomerates - What's the difference?

aggregates | agglomerates |

As a noun aggregates

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As a verb agglomerates is

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aggregates

English

Verb

(head)
  • (aggregate)

    • Noun

    (head)

    • aggregate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.(rfex)
  • A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.(rfex)
  • (mathematics, obsolete) A set (collection of objects).
  • (music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
  • (roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
  • Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements, especially the gravel and sand added to concrete. (technical)

    • Synonyms

    * mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars: cluster

    See also

    * twelve-tone technique * serialism

    References

    * DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 6.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up
  • Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
  • Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
    • aggregate glands.
  • (botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
  • Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
  • United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.

    • Verb

    (aggregat)
  • To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
    • The aggregated soil .
  • To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
  • To amount in the aggregate to.
    • ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels .

    Antonyms

    * segregate

    References

    * English heteronyms ----

    agglomerates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (agglomerate)

    • agglomerate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • collected into a ball, heap, or mass

    • Synonyms

    * agglomerated

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A collection or mass.
  • (geology) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate .
  • (meteorology) An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.

    • Synonyms

    * (collection or mass ): agglomeration, collection, mass

    Verb

  • To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.

    • Synonyms

    * amass, bundle up, gather, gather up, wind

    External links

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