conglomeration

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

conglomeration (countable and uncountable, plural conglomerations)

1. That which consists of many previously 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.

2. An instance of conglomerating, a coming together of separate parts.

Synonyms

• conglomerate

Translations

that which consists of many previously separate parts

• Bulgarian: конгломерат (bg) m (konglomerat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 總會／总会 (zh) (zǒnghuì)

• French: conglomération (fr) f
• Italian: conglomerato (it) m, conglomerazione f
• Manx: covluckanys m
• Portuguese: conglomerado (pt) m
• Russian: конгломера́т (ru) m (konglomerát), конгломера́ция (ru) f (konglomerácija)
• Spanish: conglomeración f
• Tigrinya: እኽብካብ (ʾəxbəkab)

an instance of conglomerating

• Portuguese: conglomeração m