Conglomerate

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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

II. Conglomerate ·adj Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.

III. Conglomerate ·adj Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.

IV. Conglomerate ·adj Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.

V. Conglomerate ·noun That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.

VI. Conglomerate ·noun 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.