Aggregate
Ag·gre·gate
Aggregate
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Aggregated; p. pr. & vb. n. Aggregating
- To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. “The aggregated soil.”
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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.
- To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]
Aggregate
a.
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Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
The aggregate testimony of many hundreds.
- Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands. (Anat.)
- 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.)
- Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means. (Min. & Geol.)
- United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals. (Zool.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Corporation aggregate
- See under Corporation.
Aggregate
n.
- A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
- 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.