Conglomerate

Con`glom´er`ate

a.	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.
	3.	(Geol.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
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.
v. t.	1.	To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass. [imp. & p. p. Conglomerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Conglomerating.]

Noun	1.	conglomerate - a composite rock made up of particles of varying size Synonyms: pudding stone
	2.	conglomerate - a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization Synonyms: empire
Verb	1.	conglomerate - collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" Synonyms: amass, cumulate, pile up, accumulate, gather
Adj.	1.	conglomerate - composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass; "the conglomerate peoples of New England"

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