Conglomerate \Con*glom"er*ate\, a. [L. conglomeratus, p. p. of conglomerare to roll together; con- + glomerare to wind into a ball. See Glomerate.]

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. (Bot.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers. --Gray.

3. (Geol.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Conglomerate \Con*glom"er*ate\, n.

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. (Geol.) 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.

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Conglomerate \Con*glom"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conglomerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Conglomerating.]

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)