Conglomerate
[kən'glɒm(ə)rət] or [kən'ɡlɑːmərət]
Definition
(noun.) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization.
(adj.) composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass; 'the conglomerate peoples of New England' .
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Definition
(a.) Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.
(a.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.
(a.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
(n.) That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Pudding-stone.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See AGGLOMERATE]
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Definition
adj. gathered into a clew or mass.—v.t. to gather into a ball.—n. a rock composed of pebbles cemented together.—n. Conglomerā′tion state of being conglomerated: a collection of things.
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Examples
- Wait a minute, till they are more conglomerate. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The result is a conglomerate, the cement of which consists in the mechanics of the school program or time table. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In fact, this hallway, with its conglomerate contents, may well be considered a scientific attic. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was a conglomerate army like the army of Darius or the army of Kavadh. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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