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Conglomerate   /kənglˈɑmərət/   Listen
noun
Conglomerate  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."
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."



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.  
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." "Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands."
2.
(Bot.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.
3.
(Geol.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.






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"Conglomerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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

... employed over stews of the most incomprehensible ingredients. 'That,' spoke Grandpapa Marcy, as I approached within hearing distance, 'is the real democratic stew, it will cement hard shells and soft shells into one strong conglomerate mass.' He pointed to a punch-bowl held between their legs—(for they were seated on the floor)—and containing a mixture they stirred with spoons containing the Tammany-hall mark. For some time I stood contemplating ...
— The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth • Timothy Templeton

... mountains; eastward, as far as the eye could extend, it ranged over a terrible mass of broken snowy mountains, fading off blue in the distance. The rock composing the summit consists of a very coarse, dark, volcanic conglomerate: the lower parts appeared to be of a very slatey structure. The highest trees were a few scattered cedars and aspens. From the immediate foot of the peak we were two hours in reaching the summit, and one hour and ...
— The Illustrated London Reading Book • Various

... resources of civilization it is not easy to deal with stones hard enough for satisfactory millstones. We find that the Romans, when they came, mostly selected for this use the Hertfordshire "pudding-stone," a conglomerate of the Eocene period crammed with rolled flint pebbles, sometimes also bringing over Niederendig lava from the Rhine valley, and burr-stone from the Paris ...
— Early Britain--Roman Britain • Edward Conybeare

... are chiefly concerning the sympathies of the absorbent system, or the alimentary canal, which are not so much associated with the arterial system, as to throw it into disorder, when they are slightly deranged; but when any great congeries of conglomerate glands, which may be considered as the extremities of the arterial system, are affected with torpor, the whole arterial system and the heart sympathize with the torpid glands, and act with less energy; which constitutes the cold fit ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin


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