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Webster 1913 Edition


Conglomerate

Con-glom′er-ate

,
Adj.
[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.

Con-glom′er-ate

,
Noun.
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.

Con-glom′er-ate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Conglomerated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Conglomerating
.]
To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.

Webster 1828 Edition


Conglomerate

CONGLOMERATE

,
Adj.
[L., to wind into a ball, a ball, a clew. See Glomerate.]
1.
Gathered into a ball or round body. A conglomerate gland is composed of many smaller glands, whose excretory ducts unite in a common one, as the live, kidneys, pancreas, parotids, &c. Each little granulated portion furnishes a small tube, which unites with other similar ducts, to form the common excretory duct of the gland.
2.
In botany, conglomerate flowers grow on a branching peduncle or foot stalk, on short pedicles, closely compacted together without order; opposed to diffused.
3.
Conglomerate rocks. [See Puddingstone.]

CONGLOMERATE

,
Verb.
T.
To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a round mass.

CONGLOMERATE

,
Noun.
In mineralogy, a sort of pudding-stone, or coarse sandstone, composed of pebbles of quartz, flint, siliceous slate, &c.

Definition 2024


conglomerate

conglomerate

English

Noun

conglomerate (plural conglomerates)

  1. A cluster of heterogeneous things.
    • Trench
      A conglomerate of marvellous anecdotes.
  2. (business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.
  3. (geology) A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.
    • Lyell
      A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement.

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Translations

Adjective

conglomerate (comparative more conglomerate, superlative most conglomerate)

  1. Clustered together into a mass.
    • Francis Bacon
      beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate
    • Cheyne
      Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands.
    conglomerate flowers
  2. (geology) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rock, cemented together.

Translations

Verb

conglomerate (third-person singular simple present conglomerates, present participle conglomerating, simple past and past participle conglomerated)

  1. To combine together into a larger mass.
  2. (business) To combine together into a larger corporation.

Translations


Italian

Verb

conglomerate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of conglomerare
  2. second-person plural imperative of conglomerare
  3. feminine plural of conglomerato