Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Conglomerate has 7 different meanings across 3 categories:
a composite rock made up of particles of varying size
"The geologist examined the conglomerate, noting how the rounded pebbles were cemented together to form the ancient riverbed."
a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
"The massive conglomerate expanded its holdings by acquiring tech startups alongside traditional manufacturing firms, all managed from the same corporate headquarters."
A cluster of heterogeneous things.
"The new park was a chaotic conglomerate of abandoned cars, overgrown weeds, and forgotten picnic tables."
collect or gather
"Journals are accumulating in my office"
"The work keeps piling up"
To combine together into a larger mass.
"The snow began to conglomerate on the ground, forming a thick white layer by morning."
composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass
"the conglomerate peoples of New England"
Clustered together into a mass.
"The storm clouds had gathered and clustered together into a massive black conglomerate overhead, threatening to break open at any moment."