congeries
pronunciation
How to pronounce congeries in British English:
UK [kɒn'dʒɪəri:z]
How to pronounce congeries in American English:
US [kɒn'dʒɪrɪˌiz]
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- Noun:
- a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
Word Origin
- congeries (n.)
- 1610s, from Latin congeries "heap, pile, collected mass," from congerere "to carry together" (see congest). False singular congery is from 1866. Man should have some sense of responsibility to the human congeries. As a matter of observation, very few men have any such sense. No social order can exist very long unless a few, at least a few, men have such a sense. [Ezra Pound, "ABC of Economics," 1933]
Example
- 1. Results show that the morphology of composite is porous congeries .
- 2. Banyan would find asia had little in common with itself , a mere congeries of nations and occasional failed states .
- 3. He saw that the milky way was in fact " a congeries of innumberable stars , " more even than his tired hand could draw .
- 4. With the increasingly serious security problems of network , database systems , which serve as the congeries of information in campus , are facing more d more threat from password tactic and leak in the system .
- 5. Being a kind of congeries of information , database system is a key part of computer information system ; it 's security is very important , even relating to enterprises 's prosper & downfall and a nation 's security .