a. | 1. | Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; |
2. | (Bot.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; | |
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. |
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. | |
v. t. | 1. | To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass. |
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" |
Adj. | 1. | conglomerate - composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass; "the conglomerate peoples of New England" |