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noun

Conglomerate n.

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."

(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."

verb

Conglomerate v. t. (past & past part. conglomerated; pres. part. conglomerating) To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.

adjective

Conglomerate adj.

Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light. "Beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate." "Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands."

(Bot.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.

(Geol.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.

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"Conglomerate" Quotes from Famous Books

... raining dismally when she and Mrs. Snawdor picked their way across the factory yard that afternoon. The conglomerate mass of buildings known as "Clarke's" loomed somberly against the dull sky. Beside the low central building a huge gas-pipe towered, and the water, trickling down it, made a puddle through which they had to wade to reach the door of ...

— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice

... wood and concrete structure: grottoes, and construction with clay, and with masonry, which is derived from it. As to construction with cut stones, there results, either from a tradition of building with wood or from concrete construction, grottoes or conglomerate masses, sometimes both, as in Egyptian ...

— Russia - As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Various

... of several things beside books. Now and then at an auction sale on someone's death he picked up odd articles that were of value. And so his study was a kind of conglomerate. He had a cabinet of coins from different parts of the world and curios from India and Egypt. Napoleon's campaign in Egypt had awakened a good deal of interest in the ...

— A Little Girl in Old Boston • Amanda Millie Douglas

... fortunate persons, one does not see what is to be done. Party government is based upon big majorities—it is within measurable distance of breaking down altogether unless the country will make up its mind to stand no more nonsense, and to prefer what is really a party to a conglomerate ...

— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Harry Furniss

... experience. When we have time, or when the experience is over, a mountain or a masterpiece can be analysed—the worst part of it; but we cannot make a masterpiece by analysing it; and a mountain has never been appreciated by pounding it into trap, quartz, and conglomerate; and it still holds good, as a general principle, that making a man appreciate a mountain by pounding it takes nearly as long as making the mountain, and is not nearly so ...

— The Lost Art of Reading • Gerald Stanley Lee

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