glomeration

Latin glomeratio.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑm.əɹˌeɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

glomeration (countable and uncountable, plural glomerations)

1. The act of forming or gathering into a ball or round mass
2. A conglomeration, mixture, or mass of things, people etc.
   • 1872, The Cape Monthly Magazine:

     a glomeration of subjects

   • 1929, Robert Bridges, The Testament of Beauty:

     they sit huddled to watch the fortune of the football, ther is often here and there mid the seething glomeration of that ugly embankment of gazing faces, one that came to enjoy the sight knowingly, and yet looketh never on the contest.

   • 2018, Elizabeth George, The Punishment She Deserves:

     great glomerations of kids

3. Something which is formed into a ball.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     the rainbow consisteth of a glomeration of small drops , which cannot possibly fall

• “glomeration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.