Amalgamate vs Conglomerate - What's the difference?
amalgamate | conglomerate |
To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.
* Burke
To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
(mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
A cluster of heterogeneous things.
* Trench
(business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.
(geology) A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.
* Lyell
Clustered together into a mass.
* Francis Bacon
* Cheyne
(geology) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rock, cemented together.
To combine together into a larger mass.
(business) To combine together into a larger corporation.
As verbs the difference between amalgamate and conglomerate
is that amalgamate is to merge, to combine, to blend, to join while conglomerate is to combine together into a larger mass.As adjectives the difference between amalgamate and conglomerate
is that amalgamate is coalesced; united; combined while conglomerate is clustered together into a mass.As a noun conglomerate is
a cluster of heterogeneous things.amalgamate
English
Verb
(amalgamat)- to amalgamate''' two races; to '''amalgamate one race with another
- Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.
Synonyms
* (to merge) mixAntonyms
* (to merge) separateExternal links
* ("amalgamate" on Wikipedia) ----conglomerate
English
(wikipedia conglomerate)Noun
(en noun)- A conglomerate of marvellous anecdotes.
- A conglomerate , therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement.
See also
* *Adjective
(en adjective)- beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate
- Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands.
- conglomerate flowers
