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Noun: conglomeration  kun,gló-mu'rey-shun
  1. A sum total of many heterogeneous things taken together
    "The museum housed a conglomeration of artifacts from various ancient civilizations";
    - aggregate, congeries
     
  2. An occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass
    "The asteroid was a conglomeration of various space debris";
    - conglobation
     
  3. A rounded spherical form
    "The snowball grew into a large conglomeration of snow";
    - conglobation

Derived forms: conglomerations

Type of: combine, combining, sphere, sum, sum total, summation

Encyclopedia: Conglomeration