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Aggregate   /ˈægrəgət/  /ˈægrəgɪt/  /ˈægrəgeɪt/   Listen
adjective
Aggregate  adj.  
1.
Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective. "The aggregate testimony of many hundreds."
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.
(Zool.) United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
Corporation aggregate. (Law) See under Corporation.


noun
Aggregate  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.


verb
Aggregate  v. t.  (past & past part. aggregated; pres. part. aggregating)  
1.
To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."
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."
3.
To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. (Colloq.)
Synonyms: To heap up; accumulate; pile; collect.





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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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