Constituting or amounting to a whole; total: aggregate sales in that market.
Botany Crowded or massed into a dense cluster.
Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.
n.
A total considered with reference to its constituent parts; a gross amount: "An empire is the aggregate of many states under one common head"(Edmund Burke).
The mineral materials, such as sand or stone, used in making concrete.
v.
(-gāt') ag·gre·gat·ed, ag·gre·gat·ing, ag·gre·gates
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tr.
To gather into a mass, sum, or whole.
To amount to; total.
v.
intr.
To come together or collect in a mass or whole: "Some [bacteria]aggregate so closely as to mimic a multicellular organism"(Gina Kolata).
[Middle English aggregat, from Latin aggregātus, past participle of aggregāre, to add to : ad-, ad- + gregāre, to collect (from grex, greg-, flock; see ger- in Indo-European roots).]
ag'gre·gate·ly adv., ag'gre·ga'tion n., ag'gre·ga'tive adj., ag'gre·ga'tor n.
c.1400, from L. aggregatus "associated," lit. "united in a flock," pp. of aggregare "add to," from ad- "to" + gregare "herd," so "to lead to a flock" (see gregarious).
formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness"
2.
composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets; "raspberries are aggregate fruits"
Ag"gre*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aggregated; p. pr. & vb. n. Aggregating.] [L. aggregatus, p. p. of aggregare to lead to a flock or herd; ad + gregare to collect into a flock, grex flock, herd. See Gregarious.]1. To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil." --Milton. 2. To add or unite, as, a person, to an association. It is many times hard to discern to which of the two sorts, the good or the bad, a man ought to be aggregated. --Wollaston. 3. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [Colloq.] Syn: To heap up; accumulate; pile; collect.
Ag"gre*gate\, a. [L. aggregatus, p. p.]1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective. The aggregate testimony of many hundreds. --Sir T. Browne. 2. (Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands. 3. (Bot.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry. 4. (Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means. 5. (Zo["o]l.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals. Corporation aggregate. (Law) See under Corporation.
Ag"gre*gate\, n. 1. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc. Note: In an aggregate the particulars are less intimately mixed than in a compound. 2. (Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles. In the aggregate, collectively; together.
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