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Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.

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  1. a. Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.
  2. a. Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.
  3. a. Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
  4. n. That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
  5. n. 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.
  6. v. t. To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
  7. adj. composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass
  8. n. a composite rock made up of particles of varying size
  9. n. a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
  10. v. increase in amount by collecting or gathering
  11. 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. Gray. 3. (Geol.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together. 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. To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
  12. Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerateflowers. Gray.