Hypertext Webster Gateway: "conglomerate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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 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}]
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