Please note that the schools of literary criticism and their explanations included here are by no means the only ways of distinguishing these separate areas of theory. Indeed, many critics use tools from two or more schools in their work.
Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that contains large (greater than two millimeters in diameter) rounded clasts.
Full Definition of CONGLOMERATE. 1. : a composite mass or mixture; especially: rock composed of rounded fragments varying from small pebbles to large boulders in a cement (as of hardened clay). 2. : a widely diversified corporation. â conÂ·glomÂ·erÂ·atÂ·ic \kÉn-Ëglae-ËglÃ¤-mÉ-Ëra, tik-\ Ëkaen. ËkÃ¤n adjective