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noun

Conglomerate n.

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."

(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.

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."

(Bot.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.

(Geol.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.

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"Conglomerate" Quotes from Famous Books

... look worse. He'd dropped down close to death before the conglomerate mixture which had been pumped into his stomach had taken effect, and Smathers had no desire to put too much pressure on ...

— Cum Grano Salis • Gordon Randall Garrett

... that had just deposited its load of copper conglomerate was again ready to descend into the black depths, and, hurrying Peveril forward, Mark Trefethen, with half a dozen other miners, entered it. An iron gate closed behind them and a gong ...

— The Copper Princess - A Story of Lake Superior Mines • Kirk Munroe

... said, "that the basalt monadnock on which we stand is a carboniferous upthrust of metamorphosed schists, shales and conglomerate, probably Mesozoic or at ...

— The Cruise of the Kawa • Walter E. Traprock

... with the gravel and gold; only we can trace the gravel and gold to their native rocks, but not the diamonds. Read the account given of the diamond in any good work on mineralogy;—you will find nothing but lists of localities of gravel, or conglomerate rock (which is only an old indurated gravel). Some say it was once a vegetable gum; but it may have been charred wood; but what one would like to know is, mainly, why charcoal should make itself into diamonds in India, and only into ...

— The Ethics of the Dust • John Ruskin

... to be obtained at the general store. Provisions were occasionally teamed in and were made up of peculiarly conglomerate lots. There were no women in Gophertown. There was little local gossip. There was no regular watch kept on the outlands. Gophertown felt secure in itself. Each man was his own argus. He was expected to know his enemies by instinct. He was expected, as a usual thing, ...

— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs

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