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noun

Conglomerate n.

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."

(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."

verb

Conglomerate v. t. (past & past part. conglomerated; pres. part. conglomerating) To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.

adjective

Conglomerate adj.

Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light. "Beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate." "Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands."

(Bot.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.

(Geol.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conglomerate" Quotes from Famous Books

... a remarkable conglomerate found very abundantly in the towns mentioned, all of which are in the neighborhood of Boston. We used in those primitive days to ask friends to ride with us when we meant to take ...

— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... been very crooked for me lately. I had a conglomerate of engagements of various degrees of importance in the latter half of last week, and had to forgo them all, by reason of a devil in the shape of muscular rheumatism of one side, which entered me last Wednesday, and refuses to be wholly exorcised (I believe it is my Jubilee ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley

... objects thoroughly oiled but the covers of my books cracked and curled up until I hit upon the plan of greasing them well also. In the alluvial lowlands trench-digging was a simple affair, but along the hills we found a pebbly conglomerate that gave much trouble. ...

— War in the Garden of Eden • Kermit Roosevelt

... what has been said in another part of this work, we may say that material things, in so far as they are known to us, issue into knowledge through the agency of hunger, and out of hunger issues the sensible or material universe in which we conglomerate these things; and that ideal things issue out of love, and out of love issues God, in whom we conglomerate these ideal things as in the Consciousness of the Universe. It is social consciousness, the child of love, of the instinct of perpetuation, ...

— Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno

... literary newspapers and artistic tendencies, and the United States with magazines calling incessantly for good short-stories, and with every section of its conglomerate life clamoring to express itself, lead in the production and rank of short-stories. Maupassant and Stevenson and Hawthorne and Poe are the great names in the ranks of short-story writers. The list of present day writers is interminable, and high school students can best acquire a reasonable ...

— Short-Stories • Various

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