GRE Word List

AGGLOMERATION

the action or process of collecting in a mass

The meaning of the word agglomeration is the action or process of collecting in a mass.

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gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
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tauthaving no give or slack : tightly drawn
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