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Congeries

A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation.

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Sum 76% connected

The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added t…

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Summation 76% connected

The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate.

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Aggregate 92% connected

To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."

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Conglomeration 92% connected

The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass.

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Accretion noun · 78% connection

Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.

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Accumulate verb · 78% connection

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

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Agglomerated adjective · 78% connection

Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.

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Aggregation noun · 78% connection

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

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Amass verb · 78% connection

To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or…

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Anthology noun · 78% connection

A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly ap…

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Bed noun · 78% connection

A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.

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Bose-Einstein statistics noun · 78% connection

(physics) statistical law obeyed by a system of particles whose wave function is not changed when two particles are interchanged (the…

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Clay noun · 78% connection

Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.

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Cohesion noun · 78% connection

That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from…

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Concrescence noun · 78% connection

Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles.

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Concretion noun · 78% connection

A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of…

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Congestion noun · 78% connection

The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.

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Conglomerate noun · 78% connection

That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.

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Corpuscular radiation noun · 78% connection

a stream of atomic or subatomic particles that may be charged positively (e.g. alpha particles) or negatively (e.g. beta particles) or…

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Cryptocrystalline adjective · 78% connection

Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visib…

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Cumulate verb · 78% connection

To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.

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Cumulative adjective · 78% connection

Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.

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