Hypertext Webster Gateway: "conglomeration"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Conglomeration \Con*glom`er*a"tion\, n. [L. conglomeratio: cf.
F. conglomeration.]
The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of
being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is
conglomerated; a mixed mass. --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
conglomeration
n 1: a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together [syn:
{aggregate}, {congeries}]
2: an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or
less) rounded mass [syn: {conglobation}]
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