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/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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Etymology of 'Aggregate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... means of preventing the results of wrongful acts. So, while education does not make the voter honest, it enables him to protect himself against the frauds of others, and not only increases his power but inspires him to resist violence. So that, in the aggregate, you Northerners are right in the boast which you make that intelligence makes a people stronger ...

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... diameter of only a quarter of that of the whole cup, in the middle of which it was placed; the cup thus tends to become filled up in the middle. The cup, in its fully developed condition, is seated at the very bottom of the cavity in the rock. From the aggregate thickness of the several component layers forming the cup, the old and mature animal rises a little in its burrow; for instance, the bottom of the cup in one specimen which I measured, was 4/10ths of ...

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... dissentient minorities are tolerated and protected. Under the absolute freedom and equality of the American system there is not so much as a predominance of any one of the sects. No one of them is so strong and numerous but that it is outnumbered and outweighed by the aggregate of the two next to it. At present, in consequence of the rush of immigration, the Roman Catholic Church is largely in advance of any single denomination besides, but is inferior in numerical strength and popular influence to the Methodists and Baptists combined—if they ...

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