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conglomerate

conglomerate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.(Bot.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers. Gray.
  2. 2.(Geol.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
  3. 3.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.
  4. 4.(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.
  5. 5.To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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