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conglomerate

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con=glom=er=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

conglomeratea. [L. conglomeratus, p. p. of conglomerare to roll together; con- + glomerare to wind into a ball. See Glomerate.].
  •  Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.  [1913 Webster]
    "Beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate."  [1913 Webster]
    "Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.  [1913 Webster]
conglomeraten. 
  •  That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.  [1913 Webster]
    "A conglomerate of marvelous anecdotes, marvelously heaped together."  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    "A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement."  [1913 Webster]
conglomeratev. t. 
     To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

conglomerate, adj., n., & v.
--adj.
1 gathered into a rounded mass.
2 Geol. (of rock) made up of small stones held together (cf. agglomerate).
--n.
1 a number of things or parts forming a heterogeneous mass.
2 a group or corporation formed by the merging of separate and diverse firms.
3 Geol. conglomerate rock.
--v.tr. & intr. collect into a coherent mass.

Derivative
conglomeration n.
Etymology
L conglomeratus past part. of conglomerare (as com-, glomerare f. glomus -eris ball)

THESAURUS

conglomerate

Aktiengesellschaft, aa, abyssal rock, accumulate, accumulated, accumulation, acervation, adhere, admix, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, aggroup, aktiebolag, alloy, amalgamate, amalgamated, amass, amassed, amassment, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assemble, assembled, assorted, assortment, basalt, batch, bedrock, bemingle, blend, blended, block, block lava, body, body corporate, brash, breccia, bring together, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, bunched, bundled, business, business establishment, cake, cartel, chain, chamber of commerce, chunk, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clot, clump, clumped, cluster, clustered, coagulate, coalesce, cohere, collect, collectanea, collected, colligate, collocate, combine, combined, commercial enterprise, commingle, commix, compagnie, company, compare, compile, complex, compose, composite, compound, compounded, concern, concoct, concrete, concretion, congeal, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate corporation, conglomeration, congregate, congregated, consolidating company, consortium, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, corral, crag, cumulate, cumulation, dappled, dig up, diversified corporation, draw together, dredge up, drive together, druid stone, eclectic, embrace, emulsify, enterprise, equivocal, fascicled, fasciculated, festooned pahoehoe, fifty-fifty, firm, freeze to, fuse, gather, gather in, gather together, gathered, gathering, get in, get together, glomerate, glomeration, gneiss, gob, granite, grasp, group, grow together, half-and-half, hang on, hang together, hash, heaped, heterogeneous, hodgepodge, hold, hold on, hold together, holding company, homogenize, house, hug, hunk, igneous rock, immingle, immix, in session, indiscriminate, industry, integrate, interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, intricate, ironic, join, joined, joint, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, jumble, jumbled, juxtapose, knead, knot, knotted, lava, leagued, limestone, living rock, lump, lump together, lumped, magma, make up, mantlerock, many-sided, mass, massed, match, medley, meeting, merge, metamorphic rock, mingle, mingle-mangle, mingled, miscellanea, miscellaneous, miscellany, mix, mix up, mixed, mixture, mobilize, monolith, motley, multifaceted, multifarious, multinational, multiracial, muster, node, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, operating company, packaged, pahoehoe, pair, partner, partnership, patchy, persist, piled, pillow lava, plunderbund, pluralistic, pool, porphyry, promiscuous, public utility, pudding stone, put together, raise, rake up, rally, regolith, rock, ropy lava, round up, rubble, rubblestone, sandstone, sarsen, schist, scoria, scramble, scrambled, scrape together, scree, sedimentary rock, set, shelly pahoehoe, shuffle, snowball, solid, solid body, solidify, stacked, stay, stay put, stick, stick together, stir up, stock company, stockpile, stone, sundries, syncretic, syncretize, syndicate, take hold of, take up, talus, throw together, thrown together, toss together, trade association, trust, tufa, tuff, utility, varied, variety, wad, whip in, work, wrapped up

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conglomerate

Coherence

N coherence, adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness, concretion accretion, conglutination, agglutination, agglomeration, aggregation, consolidation, set, cementation, sticking, soldering, connection, dependence, tenacity, toughness, stickiness, inseparability, inseparableness, bur, remora, conglomerate, concrete, cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering, tenacious, tough, sticky, united, unseparated, unsessile, inseparable, inextricable, infrangible, compact.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

VB assemble, collect, muster, meet, unite, join, rejoin, cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate, congregate, conglomerate, concentrate, precipitate, center round, rendezvous, resort, come together, flock get together, pig together, forgather, huddle, reassemble, assemble, muster, bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together, collect, collocate, colligate, get, whip in, gather, hold a meeting, convene, convoke, convocate, rake up, dredge, heap, mass, pile, pack, put up, truss, cram, acervate, agglomerate, aggregate, compile, group, aggroup, concentrate, unite, collect into a focus, bring into a focus, amass, accumulate, collect in a dragnet, heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Density

N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.


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