What's The Definition Of Conglomerate?
[n] a group of diverse companies run as a single organization
[n] a composite rock made up of particles of varying size
[adj] composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass; "the conglomerate peoples of New England"
[v] collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Conglomerate: accumulate |
amass |
combined |
cumulate |
empire |
gather |
pile up |
pudding stone
Related Terms | Find terms related to Conglomerate: aa |
abyssal rock |
accumulate |
accumulated |
accumulation |
acervation |
adhere |
admix |
agglomerate |
agglomeration |
aggregate |
aggregation |
aggroup |
aktiebolag |
Aktiengesellschaft |
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 |
mingled |
mingle-mangle |
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
See Also | accrete |
backlog |
corp |
corporation |
drift |
increase |
publishing conglomerate |
publishing empire |
rock |
stone
Conglomerate In Webster's Dictionary
\Con*glom"er*ate\, a. [L. conglomeratus, p. p. of
conglomerare to roll together; con- + glomerare to wind into
a ball. See {Glomerate}.]
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.
\Con*glom"er*ate\, 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. --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.
\Con*glom"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Conglomerated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conglomerating}.]
To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
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