conglomeration en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /kənˈɡlɑm.əɹˌeɪ.ʃən/ (US)
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) That which consists of many previously separate parts.
The green-purple conglomeration behaves nearly like a monospecific culture with characteristics halfway between those of the green and the purple, though metamorphosing more slowly than either[…]
1928, M. W. deLaubenfels, “Experiments concerning Cellular Behavior and Physiology of Sponges”, in Carnegie Institution Year Book No. 27, 1927-28, page 276; republished as Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection, volume 3045, University of California, 2009:
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(countable, uncountable) An instance of conglomerating, a coming together of separate parts.
A sallow prisoner has come up, in custody, for the half-dozenth time to make a personal application "to purge himself of his contempt," which, being a solitary surviving executor who has fallen into a state of conglomeration about accounts of which it is not pretended that he had ever any knowledge, he is not at all likely ever to do.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
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Synonyms
Translations (12)
ru конгломера́т (that which consists of many previously separate parts) · fr conglomération (that which consists of many previously separate parts) · it conglomerazione (that which consists of many previously separate parts) · es conglomeración (that which consists of many previously separate parts) · it conglomerato (that which consists of many previously separate parts) · gv covluckanys (that which consists of many previously separate parts) · pt conglomerado (that which consists of many previously separate parts) · ti እኽብካብ (that which consists of many previously separate parts) · cmn 總會 /总会 (that which consists of many previously separate parts) · bg конгломерат (that which consists of many previously separate parts) · ru конгломера́ция (that which consists of many previously separate parts) · pt conglomeração (an instance of conglomerating)