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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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... whose aggregate revenues, very unequally apportioned, amounted to 251,000 ducats. The church livings in Aragon were much fewer and leaner than in Castile. (Cosas Memorables, fol. 23.) The Venetian Navagiero, speaks of the metropolitan church of Toledo, ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V3 • William H. Prescott
... hundred tons, and nine gun-boats of five hundred. The latter had been hurriedly built to meet the special exigencies of this war, and were then commonly known as the "ninety-day" gunboats. Each carried one eleven-inch shell-gun and one thirty-pounder rifle. The aggregate batteries of the seventeen vessels composing the squadron, excluding some light brass pieces, amounted to one hundred and fifty-four cannon, of which one hundred and thirty-five ...
— Admiral Farragut • A. T. Mahan
... pressure, and restore us to a wholesome state of national prosperity. This will occasion no dangerous experiment, and will be gradually followed up by a progressive conversion, by which all the conflicting interests of society will be neutralized, and the aggregate wealth, and prosperity, and happiness of the ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 20. No. 568 - 29 Sept 1832 • Various
... at the discrepancy between the aggregate of troops forwarded to McClellan and the number that same general reported as having received, Lincoln exclaimed: "Sending men to that army is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard—half of ...
— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure
... 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 in time to ...
— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess


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