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conglomerate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conglomerate \Con*glom"er*ate\, a. [L. conglomeratus, p. p. of conglomerare to roll together; con- + glomerare to wind into a ball. See Glomerate.]
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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. (Bot.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.
--Gray.(Geol.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
Conglomerate \Con*glom"er*ate\, n.
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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.
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(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.
Conglomerate \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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Latin conglomeratus, past participle of conglomerare "to roll together," from com- "together" (see com-) + glomerare "to gather into a ball," from glomus (genitive glomeris) "a ball," from PIE root *glem-.
"large business group," 1967, from conglomerate (adj.).
1590s, from Latin conglomeratus, past participle of conglomerare (see conglomerate (adj.)). Related: Conglomerated; conglomerating.
Wiktionary
1 Clustered together into a mass. 2 (context geology English) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rock, cemented together. n. 1 A cluster of heterogeneous things. 2 (context business English) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity. 3 (context geology English) A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix. v
1 To combine together into a larger mass. 2 (context business English) To combine together into a larger corporation.
WordNet
adj. composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass; "the conglomerate peoples of New England"
n. a composite rock made up of particles of varying size [syn: pudding stone]
a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization [syn: empire]
v. collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate, cumulate, pile up, gather, amass]
Wikipedia
A conglomerate is the combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses that fall under one corporate group, usually involving a parent company and many subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company. Conglomerates are often large and multinational.
Conglomerate may refer to:
- Conglomerate (company)
- Conglomerate (geology)
- Conglomerate (set theory)
In popular culture:
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The Conglomerate (American group), a production crew and musical group founded by Busta Rhymes
- Conglomerate (record label), a hip hop label founded by Busta Rhymes
- The Conglomerate (Australian group), a jazz quartet
- The Conglomerate (comics), a superhero team in the DC Comics universe
Conglomerate is a coarse-grained clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts, e.g., granules, pebbles, cobbles, and boulders, larger than in diameter. Conglomerates form by the consolidation and lithification of gravel. Conglomerates typically contain finer grained sediment, e.g., either sand, silt, clay or combination of them, called matrix by geologists, filling their interstices and are often cemented by calcium carbonate, iron oxide, silica, or hardened clay.
The size and composition of the gravel-size fraction of a conglomerate may or may not vary in composition, sorting, and size. In some conglomerates, the gravel-size class consist almost entirely of what were clay clasts at the time of deposition. Conglomerates can be found in sedimentary rock sequences of all ages but probably make up less than 1 percent by weight of all sedimentary rocks. In terms of origin and depositional mechanisms, they are closely related to sandstones and exhibit many of the same types of sedimentary structures, e.g., tabular and trough cross-bedding and graded bedding.
Conglomerate Records is a record label founded by hip hop recording artist Busta Rhymes that operates as a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.
Originally founded in 1994 as Flipmode Entertainment, the name Conglomerate Records was adopted in 2011.
In 2006, the label jointly released Busta Rhymes's The Big Bang with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment.
In mathematics, a conglomerate is a definable collection of classes, just as a class is a definable collection of sets. A quasi-category is like a category except that its objects and morphisms form conglomerates instead of classes. The subclasses of any class, and in particular, the collection of all classes (every class is a subclass of the class of all sets), form a conglomerate.
Usage examples of "conglomerate".
Hawk had concluded the deal with David and Abraham Solomon which relied on her shares and proxy in the new conglomerate for him to be chairman.
And she stepped down into the dust, calling to Brighteyes her thanks for the beer as she headed back to the Conglomerate.
The only counterexample in his experience was the Citadel where he grew up, which was a majestic conglomerated accumulation of centuries.
Bowles Cabot, the newly appointed Confederation Ambassador to Diamunde, who stood next to Degs Momyer, who would be Minister of Finance in the new government the Confederation was assembling to replace the directorial boards of the conglomerates.
By 1929, when Hollerith died, his company had become the automation conglomerate, IBM.
He was a famous tough guy, the founder and still majority stockholder in the public relations film of Great-house and Smiley, which specialized in putting the most favorable interpretations on the activities of Caribbean and Latin American dictatorships, of Bahamian gambling casinos, of Liberian and Panamanian tanker fleets, of several Central Intelligence Agency fronts around the world, of gangster-dominated unions such as the International Brotherhood of Abrasives and Adhesives Workers and the Amalgamated Fuel Handlers, of international conglomerates such as RAMJAC and Texas Fruit, and on and on.
On the left, above the promontory, this irregular and jagged cliff descended by a long slope of conglomerated rocks till it mingled with the ground of the southern point.
But if this business is a business at all, it must be a lending libraryhuge, conglomerate, multinational, underfunded, overinvested.
Humanity broke apart into our little enclaves, conglomerates, and corporations.
That was the description given to the takeover of the networks by industrial conglomerates whose insistence on constantly enlarging profits outweighed their sense of privilege and public duty.
Organised crime groups such as the Mafia and Murder Incorporated have also been masters of the big fraudwith business conglomerates and banking institutions as their prime targetswhile clever individuals have similarly worked swindles on ordinary men and women, with phoney business schemes, worthless investments and fake insurance policies as the tools of their trade.
He asserted that when a human being was seen, he was perceived as a conglomerate of energy fields held together by the most mysterious force in the universe: a binding, agglutinating, vibratory force that holds energy fields together in a cohesive unit.
Julie remembered to one of those critical that turned it a human conglomerate when saying that Zachary Benedict had the magnetism animal of Sean youthful Connery, the talent of a Newman, the charisma of Costner, the machismo of a young person Eastwood, the smooth one sophistication of Warren Beatty, the versatility of Michael Douglas and the attractiveness of Harrison Ford.
At times when they listened intently, especially when they closed their eyes, there came to them a subdued, steady bourdon, profound, unceasing, a vast, numb murmur, like no other sound in all the gamut of nature--the sound of a city at night, the hum of a great, conglomerate life, wrought out there from moment to moment under the stars and under the moon, while the last hours of the old year dropped quietly away.
We're down to six media companies, six airlines, two and a half carmakers, and one radio conglomerate.