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- to condense
- to coagulate
- coacervation (i.e. form tiny droplets)
- aggregation
- coherent
- to come together (to form sth)
- to assemble together
- (chemistry) to polymerize
Trad. 聚斂
- to accumulate
- to gather
- to amass wealth by heavy taxation or other unscrupulous means
- (science) convergent
Trad. 訪惠聚
- program of visiting Muslim households in Xinjiang to monitor them, begun in 2014 (abbr. for 訪民情、惠民生、聚民心|访民情、惠民生、聚民心[fang3 min2 qing2 , hui4 min2 sheng1 , ju4 min2 xin1])
Trad. 聚寶盆
- treasure bowl (mythology)
- fig. source of wealth
- cornucopia
- gold mine
- peptidoglycan (PG) or murein (polymer of sugars and amino acids forming cell wall)
Trad. 生聚教訓
- to increase the population, amass wealth, and teach the people to be faithful to the cause (in preparation for war, following a defeat)
Trad. 歡聚一堂
- to gather happily under one roof
Trad. 聚少離多
- (of a husband and wife etc) to spend more time apart than together; to see each other very little
Trad. 經氣聚集
- meeting points of qi (in Chinese medicine)
- lit. many sand grains accumulate to form a tower (idiom)
- fig. many little things add up to sth great
Trad. 聚精會神
- to concentrate one's attention (idiom)
Trad. 物以類聚
- similar things come together (idiom); like draws like
- Birds of a feather flock together.
Trad. 聚螢映雪
- lit. to collect fireflies and study by their light (idiom); fig. ambitious student from impoverished background
- burning the midnight oil
Trad. 聚訟紛紜
- (of a body of people) to offer all kinds of different opinions (idiom)
- to argue endlessly
- (idiom) to part without hard feelings; to cut the knot as smoothly as you tied it
Trad. 王國聚會所
- Kingdom Hall (place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses)
Trad. 聚光太陽能
- concentrating solar power (CSP)
- polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), trademarked as Teflon
Trad. 聚眾淫亂罪
- group licentiousness (offense punishable by up to five years in prison in the PRC)
Trad. 熱核聚變反應
- thermonuclear fusion reaction
Trad. 不是冤家不聚頭
- destiny will make enemies meet (idiom)
- (often said about lovers who have a disagreement)
Trad. 二氯異三聚氰酸鈉
- sodium dichloroisocyanurate
Trad. 物以類聚，人以群分
- Similar things group together, similar people fit together (idiom); Birds of a feather flock together.