conglomerate adj : 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]
2. a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization [syn: empire] v : collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate, cumulate, pile up, gather, amass]

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. 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.

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. 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.

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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