English Dictionary

conglomerate

IPA（発音記号）

/kənˈɡlɒm.(ə.)ɹət/

名詞

A cluster of heterogeneous things. / (business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.

日本語の意味

異種の物や要素が集まった集合体 / （ビジネス用語として）複数の異なる事業を統合した企業、コングロマリット

The museum's new exhibit displayed a conglomerate of artifacts from different civilizations, each with its own story.

その博物館の新しい展示は、異なる文明の遺物が集まった異種の集合体を展示しており、それぞれが独自の物語を持っていた。

意味（1）

A cluster of heterogeneous things.

They [miracles in the canonical gospels] are held, too, together by his [Jesus Christ's] strong and central personality, which does not leave them a conglomerate of marvellous anecdotes accidentally heaped together, but parts of a great organic whole, of which every part is in vital coherence with every other.

意味（2）

(business) 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.

意味（3）

(geology) A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.

When sandstone is coarse-grained, it is usually called grit. If the grains are rounded, and large enough to be called pebbles, it becomes a conglomerate, or pudding-stone, which may consist of pieces of one or of many different kinds of rock. A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement.

conglomerates （ plural ）