Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Formed into a compact rounded mass; tightly clustered; conglomerate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To gather or wind into a ball; collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads; conglomerate.
- To wind; twist.
- In anatomy, conglomerate: an epithet specifically applied to the structure of ordinary glands, such as the salivary, lacrymal, mammary, or pancreatic: opposed to conglobate. See gland, 1.
- In botany, compactly clustered; gathered into a head or heap; growing in massive forms or in dense clusters.
- In entomology, gathered in one or more spots or lines: applied to dots, punctures, etc.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.
- v. To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads.
Etymologies
- Latin glomerātus, past participle of glomerāre, to wind into a ball, from glomus, glomer-, ball. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The media con-glomerate -- with holdings in music, film and television -- is the envy of Hollywood.”
“No variety of perfectibilism is yet quite dead, as the popularity of Teilhard's con - glomerate sufficiently illustrates.”
“Low carbon revolution and the emergence of the green-glomerate”
“The corporation has no obligation to anyone / any ethic / any government, of course it can be pursued by the EPA or the feds for gross violations of laws, but the corporation can disolve itself or be a multi-glomerate offshoot child corporation which the parent is in no way responsible for.”
“Lascelles deMercado and Company Limited has taken a $1.38 billion hit from the reconfiguration of its fund to a defined contribution scheme, the con-glomerate has reported.”
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“A glomerate fpike — fpiculis varie congejlis; having the fpikelets or cemponent fpikes varioufly heaped together: as in Panicum italicum. —”
“The glomerate panicle is exemplified in Poa ciliaris, and Daclylis glo - vierata. —”
“Haurite anhelantem, & perenni Sarbirium glomerate flu£iu«”
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“On the Ocoa, some of the con - glomerate is cemented by lime instead of sand, and in this case the pebbles are not A.p. S. —”
Internet Archive: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
“The Tionesta Sandstone (No. 16), varies in texture from moderately coarse con - glomerate to fine-grained sandstone.”
Internet Archive: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
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