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Definition of Conglomerate
1. Noun. A composite rock made up of particles of varying size.
2. Verb. Collect or gather. "The crowds conglomerate in the streets"; "The work keeps piling up"
Generic synonyms: Increase
Specialized synonyms: Backlog, Accrete, Drift
Derivative terms: Accumulation, Accumulative, Accumulative, Conglomeration, Conglomeration, Cumulation, Cumulative, Cumulus, Gathering
3. Adjective. Composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass. "The conglomerate peoples of New England"
4. Noun. A group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization.
Generic synonyms: Corp, Corporation
Specialized synonyms: Publishing Conglomerate, Publishing Empire
Definition of Conglomerate
1. a. Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.
2. n. That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
3. v. t. To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
Definition of Conglomerate
1. Noun. A cluster of heterogeneous things. ¹
2. Noun. (business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity. ¹
3. Noun. (geology) A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix. ¹
4. Adjective. Clustered together into a mass. ¹
5. Verb. To combine together into a larger mass. ¹
6. Verb. (business) To combine together into a larger corporation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conglomerate
1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Medical Definition of Conglomerate
1. Composed of several parts aggregated into one mass. Origin: L. Con-glomero, pp. -atus, to roll together, fr. Glomus, a ball (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conglomerate
Literary usage of Conglomerate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"The Pennsylvanian system includes the Pottsville conglomerate (Millstone grit)
below and the Coal Measures above. THE POTTSVILLE conglomerate (MILLSTONE ..."
2. Bulletin by Kentucky Geological Survey (1905)
"Southeastward from the border outcrop of the conglomerate formation drilled ...
The conglomerate formation of these well sections is for the most part a ..."
3. Bulletin by Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (1908)
"Such origin seems to have been assumed from the general water-worn condition of
the pebbles in the conglomerate and from the present proximity of the sea. ..."
4. Bulletin by Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (1895)
"These are the metamorphic conglomerate and the albite schist. ... Here the
conglomerate, representing the base of the Cambrian, rests on the underlying ..."
5. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1907)
"Stretched boulders weathered from schist-conglomerate, Lumpkin County, ...
The conglomerate here forms a number of low, disconnected bluffs on the south ..."
6. The Geology of the Coama-Guayama District, Porto Rico by Edwin Thomas Hodge (1920)
"conglomerate The pebbles and boulders vary greatly in size, ... The dikes and
sills which cut through this conglomerate are of a coarser nature than the ..."
7. Special Report by Geological Survey of Alabama, Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1895)
"This is apparently the first seam below the fourth or upper conglomerate, and
should therefore be the equivalent of the Montevallo seam* of the Cahaba Coal ..."
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