conglomerate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A cluster of heterogeneous things.
2. isim A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.

   “The 2017 list includes 80 financial conglomerates with the head of group located in the European Union or European Economic Area, one financial conglomerate with the head of group in Switzerland, one in Bermuda, and two in the United States.”

3. isim A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.

   “Calcareous lias, slate, and trap are still to be found there, rising from layers of conglomerate like teeth out of a gum. But the pickaxe has broken up and levelled those bristling, rugged peaks which were once the homes of the eagles.”

4. sıfat Clustered together into a mass.

   “conglomerate flowers”

5. sıfat Composed of fragments of rock, pebbles, or stones cemented together.

   “The Santa Margarita Formation in the southern Temblor Range, composed of conglomerate and subordinate sandstone, evolved as a large complex of fan deltas and submarine fans in late Miocene time.”

6. sıfat Made up of heterogeneous elements; composite.

   “I sat down on a step for a while to get over it, with my head in my hands and that awful conglomerate sound in my ears all the time.”

7. fiil To combine together into a larger mass.

   “[V]apors are never attracted or drawn up above the middle Region of the Air; for that the cold Air there, by thickning and conglomerating them, preſently turn them into clouds: and thence proceeds Miſts, Rains, Snows, Hayls, &c.”

8. fiil To combine together into a larger corporation.

   “Some firms conglomerated with suppliers of intermediate inputs and the railroad to carry their products.”