Crossword clues for conglomeration
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conglomeration \Con*glom`er*a"tion\, n. [L. conglomeratio: cf. F. conglomeration.]
The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation.
--Bacon.That which is conglomerated; a mixed mass; a hodgepodge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Latin conglomerationem (nominative conglomeratio), noun of action from past participle stem of conglomerare (see conglomerate (adj.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 That which consists of many previously separate parts. 2 An instance of conglomerate, a coming together of separate parts.
WordNet
n. a rounded spherical form [syn: conglobation]
a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together [syn: aggregate, congeries]
an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass [syn: conglobation]
Wikipedia
ConGlomeration is an annual multigenre convention held in or around Louisville, Kentucky. ConGlomeration is an all-volunteer non-profit organization which, as part of its convention programming, conducts charitable fundraising activities on behalf of the American Cancer Society. With the unexpected closure of the convention's hotel in 2008, the operation of the convention was disrupted, but resumed in 2010. ConGlomeration 2016 will be held at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Louisville on April 8–10, 2016.
Usage examples of "conglomeration".
The kindjals deployed their atomics, tossing them in a broad spread against the dense conglomeration of targets the thinking machines had arranged to block the Army of Humanity.
Fort Chippewyan in Athabasca when Robertson pulled ashore at the conglomeration of huts known as Fort Wedderburn, may be guessed.
As they picked their way, she taught him how to recognize the trees of the Lacandon rain forest, which was a weird conglomeration of semitropical vegetation coexisting with oak and pine trees.
Williard picked up a bottle of black oily fluid, podophyllin in oil, and cotton swabs from a Conglomeration of his most used ointments and salves residing on a small table by his desk.
Besides being an inn for the herdsmen and the occasional rambler, it was also a farm and a timber-station, and a whole conglomeration of low wooden buildings clung to the outer log fence that bounded its garden and paddock.
The rest of Keama Dusta, the greater part, was a vast sprawl of homes and businesses, huts and factories, taverns and warehouses, shops and showplaces, a clotted rambling conglomeration without apparent pattern to it.
The mass bulged shapelessly, an unhealthy conglomeration of fused living materials, like a single great cancer floating in a sea of pus.
As you know, the Seminoles are not a race, but a conglomeration of many Indian tribes, members of which fled into the Everglades in the past.
It looks like a conglomeration of pointed paper prongs: ' Lifting the fragile item, Victoria turned it from side to side.
Dread-winged conglomerations flopped across the ground, unable to take flight.
Every now and again he passed through villages, strange conglomerations of cottages and shops, buildings that loomed mis-shapenly over the road or retreated behind hedges with an eccentricity of ornaments he found disturbing.
The Wart was familiar with the nests of spar-hawk and Gos, those crazy conglomerations of sticks and oddments which had been taken over from squirrels or crows, and he knew how the twigs and the tree foot were splashed with white mutes, old bones, muddy feathers and castings.
You, and I, and all the rest of us, have to live with the fact that we're just conglomerations of random genes.
They seem to be all half-breeds and strange conglomerations of dozens of different races.
Did such a conglomeration of abstract terms give really the gist of our knowledge of the deity, schools of theology might indeed continue to flourish, but religion, vital religion, would have taken its flight from this world.