Conglomerate /(?)/

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.

   Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands.

2. Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers. (Bot.)
3. Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together. (Geol.)

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.

2. 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. (Geol.)

   A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement.

imp. & p. p. Conglomerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Conglomerating

1. To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.