Meaning Of Aggregate

v. t.

To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."

v. t.

To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.

v. t.

To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.

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Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.

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Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.

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Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

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Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

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United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.

n.

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.

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A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.