0 a large group or mass of different things all collected together in an untidy or unusual way:
There was a strange conglomeration of objects on the mantelpiece.
1 a large group or mass of different things gathered together:
Reductionists attempt to show how a conglomeration of brute facts can somehow add up to a normative fact of some kind.
Either way, the specific event may be recalled quite well as a conglomeration of general and specific event knowledge.
In memory search, in contrast, what is needed is not a conglomeration but a discrimination among items.
Each site within the city had a spirit of place (genius loci) which distilled the whole conglomeration of events that had occurred there.
Therefore, chunks can be more than just a conglomeration of a few items from the stimulus.
In the first case, this has led to numerous publications on music in the context of commodification processes and large-scale conglomerations.
Such a conglomeration of sources enables the researcher to observe many 'actors' from a number of different angles.
In some cases, a currently assumed feature may represent a conglomeration of the actual primitives of phonological representation.