conglomeration

/kənˈɡlɑm.əɹˌeɪ.ʃən/

KƏNꞬLⱭM · əɹeɪ · ʃən (3 syllables)

English Noun
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Definition

That which consists of many previously separate parts.

Example Sentences

  • "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[…]"
  • "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."
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