From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Conglomerate \Con*glom"er*ate\, n.
1. That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from
various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection;
accumulation.
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A conglomerate of marvelous anecdotes, marvelously
heaped together. --Trench.
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2. (Geol.) A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone
cemented together by another mineral substance, either
calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; --
opposed to agglomerate. See {Breccia}.
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A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound
together by a cement. --Lyell.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Conglomerate \Con*glom"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Conglomerated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conglomerating}.]
To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Conglomerate \Con*glom"er*ate\, a. [L. conglomeratus, p. p. of
conglomerare to roll together; con- + glomerare to wind into
a ball. See {Glomerate}.]
1. Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together;
concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.
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Beams of light when they are multiplied and
conglomerate. --Bacon.
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Fluids are separated in the liver and the other
conglobate and conglomerate glands. --Cheyne.
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2. (Bot.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as,
conglomerate flowers. --Gray.
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3. (Geol.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of
rocks, cemented together.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
conglomerate
adj 1: composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass;
"the conglomerate peoples of New England"
n 1: a composite rock made up of particles of varying size [syn:
{pudding stone}, {conglomerate}]
2: a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run
as a single organization [syn: {conglomerate}, {empire}]
v 1: collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my
office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: {accumulate},
{cumulate}, {conglomerate}, {pile up}, {gather}, {amass}]
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