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CONGLOMERATION

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Dictionary entry overview: What does conglomeration mean?

• CONGLOMERATION (noun)
The noun CONGLOMERATION has 3 senses:

1. a rounded spherical form
2. a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
3. an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass

Familiarity information: CONGLOMERATION used as a noun is uncommon.

Dictionary entry details

• CONGLOMERATION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A rounded spherical form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

conglobation; conglomeration

Hypernyms ("conglomeration" is a kind of...):

sphere (a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses))

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A sum total of many heterogenous things taken together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

aggregate; congeries; conglomeration

Hypernyms ("conglomeration" is a kind of...):

sum; sum total; summation (the final aggregate)

Meronyms (members of "conglomeration"):

plankton (the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water)

nekton (the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales)

Sense 3

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Meaning:

An occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

conglobation; conglomeration

Hypernyms ("conglomeration" is a kind of...):

combine; combining (an occurrence that results in things being united)

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