Conglomerate

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  • intransitive verb. To form or gather into a mass or whole.
  • intransitive verb. To form into or merge with a corporate conglomerate.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to form into a mass or whole.
  • noun. A corporation made up of a number of different companies that operate in diversified fields.
  • noun. A collected heterogeneous mass; a cluster.
  • noun. A coarse-grained sedimentary rock consisting of rounded to subangular rock fragments cemented together by hardened silt, clay, calcium carbonate, or similar material.
  • adjective. Gathered into a mass; clustered.
  • adjective. Made up of loosely cemented heterogeneous material.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To gather into a ball or round body; collect into a round mass.
  • To bring together into a mass or heap; collect and form into a whole, without regard to congruity or homogeneity; form a conglomeration of.
  • Gathered into a ball or round body; collected or clustered together.
  • In botany, densely clustered.
  • In entomology, gathered irregularly in one or more spots, instead of being distributed evenly over the surface: said of hairs, punctures, dots, etc.
  • Composed of heterogeneous or incongruous materials; conglomerated.
  • noun. In geology, a rock made up of the rounded and water-worn debris of previously existing rocks, consisting, at least in part, of fragments large enough to be called pebbles. Also called conglomerate rock.
  • noun. Anything composed of heterogeneous or incongruous materials.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated.
  • adjective. Closely crowded together; densly clustered.
  • adjective. Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
  • noun. That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
  • noun. 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.
  • transitive verb. To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A cluster of heterogeneous things.
  • noun. A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.
  • noun. A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.
  • adjective. Clustered together into a mass.
  • verb. To combine together into a larger mass.
  • verb. To combine together into a larger corporation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. collect or gather
  • adjective. composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass
  • noun. a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
  • noun. a composite rock made up of particles of varying size
  • Word Usage
    "The conglomerate is joining with Harbin Electric Machinery Co. to make GE-designed onshore and offshore wind turbines."
    Equivalent
    combined  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rock  stone  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    breccia