Aggregate

Ag·gre·gate

Aggregate

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Aggregated; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
    — Wollaston.
  3. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]

Aggregate

a.
  1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
    The aggregate testimony of many hundreds.
  2. Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands. (Anat.)
  3. Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry. (Bot.)
  4. Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means. (Min. & Geol.)
  5. United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals. (Zool.)

Phrases & Compounds

Corporation aggregate
See under Corporation.

Aggregate

n.
  1. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
  2. A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles. (Physics)

Phrases & Compounds

In the aggregate
collectively; together.