1. massing or clumping of materials together. 2. a clumped mass of material. familial aggregation the occurrence of more cases of a given disorder in close relatives of a person with the disorder than in control families. platelet aggregation platelet agglutination.
boule â(plural boules). 1  One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. 2  A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. 3  A round loaf of bread. 4  A round piece of dough. ( 5 woodworking) A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
For the quintessence of classical philosophy, see Aether (classical element). Boron is a chemical element with symbol B and atomic number 5. Produced entirely by cosmic ray spallation and supernovae and not by stellar nucleosynthesis, it is a low-abundance element in the Solar system and in the Earth's crust. Boron is concentrated on Earth by the water-solubility of its more common naturally occurring compounds, the borate minerals.