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conglomerate : a widely diversified company ;esp : a corporation that acquires other companies whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity ...
Conglomerate
Gathered into a ball or a mass collected together concentrated as conglomerate rays of light...
Hindu
Hindu, The historical and etymological genesis of the word 'Hindu' has given rise to a controversy amongst ideologists; but the view generally accepted by scholars appears to be that the word 'Hindu' is derived from the river Sindhu otherwise known as Indus which flows from the Punjab. 'That part of the great Aryan race', says Monier Williams, 'which immigrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu (now called the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by Monler Williams, p.1.)'. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VI, has described 'Hinduism' as the title applied to that form of religion which prevails among the vast majority of the present population of the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has obs...
Conglomeration
The act or process of gathering into a mass the state of being thus collected collection accumulation...
Glomerate
Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster conglomerate...
Graywacke
A conglomerate or grit rock consisting of rounded pebbles and sand firmly united together...
Heterogeneous
Differing in kind having unlike qualities possessed of different characteristics dissimilar opposed to homogeneous and said of two or more connected objects or of a conglomerate mass considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up...
Longmynd rocks
The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates grits schists and slates of Great Britain which lie at the base of the Cambrian system so called because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills Shropshire...
Medina epoch
A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate and the Medina sandstone See the Chart of Geology...
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