(a.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
(n.) That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
(n.) A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia.
(v. t.) To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Silicotuberculous bronchadenitis, conglomerate-cirrhotic lower-lobe silicotuberculosis and their complications (e.g.
(2) The Hashd al-Shaabi, a conglomerate of primarily Shia militias that has played a key role in ousting Isis from cities such as Tikrit, appeared to take a backseat in the liberation of Ramadi, ceding the task primarily to the Iraqi elite counter-terrorism force, local police, the Iraqi army and a small group of Sunni tribesmen, backed by US-led airstrikes.
(3) It is thought Tata, the Indian conglomerate that also owns Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea, is also preparing to cut several hundred roles in operations that serve the Scunthorpe plant, mainly at its Rotherham site.
(4) Physiological functions are a conglomeration of cell functions, and all cells are regulated by information processing and energy distributing systems.
(5) Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong conglomerate that owns Three, agreed in March 2015 to buy O2 from Telefónica of Spain.
(6) In both the experiments there were detected cells in their majority with thinner walls, L-form-like structures, protoplasts and single conglomerates of the cells with thicker walls and anomalous division and the cells at the moment of lysis.
(7) Yet in recent months, Ma has pushed the company far beyond its core domain, placing it among the ranks of highly diversified conglomerates such as Google and GE.
(8) At the beginning of the 2000s, Motsepe began to found a number of companies which would constitute the ARM conglomeration.
(9) His Ukrainian conglomerate reportedly controls nearly half of that country’s coal production, and around a third of its electricity production and distribution.
(10) Apparently the latter represented conglomerates of adherent spheroid elements that resembled somewhat "large bodies" of L-forms.
(11) Among the other detainees was Wu Minglie, the chairman of the New Huangpu group, one of the city's biggest conglomerates.
(12) Its director, Roland Demleitner, said large brewery conglomerates had been increasingly aggressive in their attempts to push small regional breweries out of the shrinking market.
(13) The roentgenological picture of median oat-cell cancer is characterized by the presence of tumor conglomerate in the lung hilus, which consisted of the primary tumor penetrating in lymph nodes adjacent to the bronchus in 66.6% of canses.
(14) Tata Steel has halted plans to sell the Port Talbot steelworks and is instead working on keeping its UK business as part of a joint venture with the German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp.
(15) Electronmicroscopically, the former was a conglomerate of electron-dense materials of various degrees and the latter had a membrane-limited granular structure.
(16) As was found by immunoelectron microscopy, the initial and resistant cells contained WRS in most of their cellular compartments: on free polyribosomes, as large conglomerates in the cytoplasm, on polysomes bound to the rough endoplasmic reticulum membranes and to the outer nuclear membrane, on the cytoskeleton, and in the detergent-insoluble nuclear matrix.
(17) Three banks have been hired to advise on the restructuring with the possibliity of a fourth bank involved, Murdoch's long time adviser Allen & Co. Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Centerview Partners have been hired to advise the media conglomerate, a person familiar with the matter told Fox News.
(18) Whole-tissue stress-strain behavior under uniaxial loading is predicted from an analysis of the compression of a conglomerate of cells in a simple arrangement.
(19) • Far from giving you a blueprint for your rise to the top, these routines will probably cause you to reconsider the whole idea of becoming CEO of a major communications conglomerate.
(20) Aristegui’s team not only uncovered the fact that the president’s wife and his finance minister, [Luis] Videgaray, had received a couple of luxurious residences from a big construction conglomerate that was doing business with the federal government; they also exposed a network of corruption, a radiography of how the president is managing the country’s finances as if he was a feudal lord, as if laws, international treaties and transparency did not exist.
Molasse
Definition:
(n.) A soft Tertiary sandstone; -- applied to a rock occurring in Switzerland. See Chart of Geology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sugarbeet pulp and molasses from 57 processing plants in 16 States were sampled for pesticide residues.
(2) In a molasses medium, the cell yield of YOY920 was comparable to that of a baking strain FSC6001, and much higher than that of the non-sucrose-fermenting strains.
(3) Clostridium pasteurianum possesses a high level of glutamate synthase (EC 1.4.1.14) activity and cell yield when grown on 4 mM ammonium chloride and molasses as the sole nitrogen and carbon sources, respectively.
(4) A gas-liquid chromatographic (GLC) method is described for the determination of diethylstilbestrol (DES) in molasses-based liquid feed supplements, using dienestrol diacetate as the internal standard.
(5) Curators, crude oil and an outdated cultural mix Protesters disrupt Tate Britain's party celebrating 10 years of BP sponsorship, throwing molasses over the steps of the gallery.
(6) Due to the dramatic increase in international oil prices, the ethanol production by fermentation is presently becoming an attractive and feasible project for many countries Argentina has implemented an experimental national program of ethanol use as fuel and the standard procedure of Melle-Boinot is currently employed in sugar cane molasses fermentation.
(7) Raw whole cottonseed (CS), extruded whole cottonseed (ECS), and roasted whole cottonseed (RCS) were fed in diets containing 17% crude protein and composed of 42% whole cottonseed, 26% corn grain and 29% hay supplemented with dry molasses, vitamins and minerals.
(8) In diets with both roughages combined, molasses did not affect any variable measured; however, these diets gave highest solids-corrected milk yields.
(9) It was generally complete at 72 h. In trial 1, rats were fed silage mixtures of 60:30:5:5, 45:45:5:5 and 30:60:5:5, offal, corn, molasses and inoculant, respectively.
(10) Effects of cane molasses at 0, 4, and 8% of DM in complete mixed diets were evaluated when molasses was fed to lactating dairy cows with cottonseed hulls, alfalfa haylage, or both combined.
(11) With alfalfa haylage diets (35% of DM), 8% molasses depressed actual milk yield and solids-corrected milk, DM intake, milk fat percentage, milk protein percentage, and feed efficiency.
(12) The value of blood analysis in establishing a diagnosis and a dietary supplement of molasses in correcting the production problems is illustrated.
(13) Maximal yield was obtained when the organism grew in Czapek solution supplemented with yeast extract, although good conversion was also found in a peptone-corn molasses medium.
(14) The molasses-grown cells exhibited a balanced sterol composition throughout growth, maintaining the proportion of ergosterol to 24:28-dehydroergosterol equal to 1.4.
(15) The commercially obtained yeast used previously had been grown in a molasses medium.
(16) Intake of molasses was apparently stimulated by a protein supplementation but not by defaunation and this finding is discussed.
(17) Their addition to the growth medium produced the same effect as that of molasses and maize extract.
(18) Finally, the number of protozoa in the rumen liquor was reduced by 49 and 70% at 0 and 5 hours post feeding respectively with the addition of lasalocid to the diets, regardless of the use of molasses.
(19) The experimental design was a 2 x 2 x 4 factorial replicated over 2 yr with main effects for season (summer, winter), diet (H = ground alfalfa hay, H + G = 50% ground alfalfa, 47.5% dry-rolled wheat and 2.5% molasses) and water source (N = normal, S = saline) during two consecutive 56-d periods in each experiment (N-N, N-S, S-N, S-S).
(20) The original carbon source of the basal medium was replaced by one of the following materials: rice bran, wheat bran, corn bran, corn starch, cane molasses, and glucose syrup.