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
v.
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.