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English
Pronunciation
Noun
conglomeration (countable and uncountable, plural conglomerations)
- That which consists of many previously separate parts.
- Synonym: conglomerate
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: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 […]
- An instance of conglomerating, a coming together of separate parts.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1853, →OCLC: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.
Translations
that which consists of many previously separate parts
an instance of conglomerating