Conglomerate

01 a. Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.

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.” — Bacon.

“Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands.” — Cheyne.
2.
Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers.(Bot.)
3.
Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.(Geol.)

02 n. That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.

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.” — Trench.
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.) See: Breccia
“A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement.” — Lyell.

03 v. t. To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.

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