glomerate

English

Etymology

From Latin glomerātus, past participle of glomerāre (“to glomerate”).

Verb

glomerate (third-person singular simple present glomerates, present participle glomerating, simple past and past participle glomerated)

1. To gather or wind into a ball; to collect (threads, etc.) into a spherical form or mass.

Adjective

glomerate (not comparable)

1. Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.

Related terms

• conglomerate

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “glomerate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• algometer, geometral

Latin

Participle

glomerāte

1. vocative masculine singular of glomerātus

References

• “glomerate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “glomerate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.