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ag·gre·gate   (āg'rĭ-gĭt)   
adj.  
  1. Constituting or amounting to a whole; total: aggregate sales in that market.

  2. Botany Crowded or massed into a dense cluster.

  3. Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.

n.  
  1. 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).

  2. 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

v.   tr.
  1. To gather into a mass, sum, or whole.

  2. 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.
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Computing Dictionary

aggregator networking
A program for watching for new content at user-specified RSS feeds.
An example is BottomFeeder.
(http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Technical_Services/Cataloguing/Metadata/RDF/Applications/RSS/News_Readers/).
(2003-09-29)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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