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Aggregate   /ˈægrəgət/  /ˈægrəgɪt/  /ˈægrəgeɪt/   Listen
Aggregate

adjective
1.
Formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole.  Synonyms: aggregated, aggregative, mass.  "The aggregated amount of indebtedness"
2.
Composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets.
noun
1.
The whole amount.  Synonyms: sum, total, totality.
2.
Material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster.
3.
A sum total of many heterogenous things taken together.  Synonyms: congeries, conglomeration.
verb
(past & past part. aggregated; pres. part. aggregating)
1.
Amount in the aggregate to.
2.
Gather in a mass, sum, or whole.  Synonym: combine.



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"Aggregate" Quotes from Famous Books



... theme is the result of a sum of notes, and not of any single note, the criminal type results from the aggregate of these anomalies, which render him strange and terrible, not only to the scientific observer, but to ordinary persons who are capable ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero
... life in this useless and unwholesome practice. But when we add to the profitable use to which this time might have been applied, the expenses of tobacco, pipes, snuff, and spitting boxes—and of the injuries which are done to the clothing, during a whole life, the aggregate sum would probably amount to several hundred dollars. To a labouring man this would be a decent portion for a son or daughter, while the same sum saved by a man in affluent circumstances, would have enabled ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various
... in the ceremonial there was danger of a laugh from the aggregate, overwrought nerves when Charlotte promptly named herself without waiting for Nell's response which came late but ...
— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess
... grained compact gray rock, of aggregate structure, consisting chiefly of quartz, plagioclase and biotite, and the alteration ...
— The Long Labrador Trail • Dillon Wallace
... possessing, especially in its southern division, a climate presenting most of the advantages of the tropics with but few of the objections which appertain to the low latitudes. The population of San Francisco already reaches an aggregate of nearly four hundred thousand. Owing its first popular attraction to the discovery of gold within its borders, in 1849, California has long since developed an agricultural capacity exceeding the value of its mineral productions. The future promise and possibilities ...
— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou


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