Conglomerate word meaning and definition

[noun] a group of diverse companies run as a single organization
[noun] a composite rock made up of particles of varying size
[adjective] composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass; "the conglomerate peoples of New England"
[verb] collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"

\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. Beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate. --Bacon. Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands. --Cheyne. 2. (Bot.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers. --Gray. 3. (Geol.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
\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. A conglomerate of marvelous anecdotes, marvelously heaped together. --Trench. 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}. A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement. --Lyell.
\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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