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Meaning of 'conglomerate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Conglomerate [ a.]
- Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.
- Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.
- Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
2 . Conglomerate [ n.]
- That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
- 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.
3 . Conglomerate [ v. t.]
- To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.

Meaning of 'conglomerate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . conglomerate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- collect or gather
Example in sentence:
  • corralling votes for an election;
  • Journals are accumulating in my office;
  • The work keeps piling up
2 . conglomerate [ s]
Meaning (2):
- composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass
Example in sentence:
  • the conglomerate peoples of New England

Nearby Words:

con con- conacre conarium conation conative conatus concamerate concameration concatenate

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