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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Constituting or amounting to a whole; total.
  • adjective Botany Crowded or massed into a dense cluster.
  • adjective Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.
  • noun A total considered with reference to its constituent parts; a gross amount.
  • noun The mineral materials, such as sand or stone, used in making concrete.
  • intransitive verb To gather into a mass, sum, or whole.
  • intransitive verb To amount to; total.
  • intransitive verb To collect (content from different sources on the Internet) into one webpage or newsreader.
  • intransitive verb To come together or collect in a mass or whole.
  • idiom (in the aggregate) Taken into account as a whole.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bring together; collect into a sum, mass, or body: as, “the aggregated soil,” Milton, P. L., x. 293.
  • To amount to (the number of); make (the sum or total of): an elliptical use.
  • To add or unite to as a constituent member; make a part of the aggregate of: as, to aggregate a person to a company or society.
  • To come together into a sum or mass; combine and form a collection or mass.
  • noun In logic, a whole of aggregants which is universally predicable of every one of its aggregants and is not predicable of any individual of which none of its aggregants is predicable.
  • Formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: as, the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
  • Specifically— In geology, composed of several different mineral constituents capable of being separated by mechanical means: as, granite is an aggregate rock.
  • In anatomy, clustered: as, aggregate glands (Peyer's glands)
  • In botany, forming a dense cluster. In zoology, compound; associated. In law, composed of many individuals united into one association.
  • noun A sum, mass, or assemblage of particulars; a total or gross amount; any combined whole considered with reference to its constituent parts.
  • noun Any hard material added to lime to make concrete.
  • noun Milit., the total commissioned and enlisted force of any post, department, division, corps, or other command.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars
  • noun (Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
  • noun collectively; together.
  • transitive verb To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. “The aggregated soil.”
  • transitive verb To add or unite, .
  • transitive verb colloq. To amount in the aggregate to.
  • adjective Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
  • adjective (Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
  • adjective (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.
  • adjective (Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.
  • adjective (Law) See under Corporation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
  • noun A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
  • noun mathematics, obsolete A set (collection of objects).
  • noun music The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
  • noun roofing Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
  • noun Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements, especially the gravel and sand added to concrete. (technical)
  • adjective Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up
  • adjective Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
  • adjective Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
  • adjective botany Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
  • adjective Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
  • adjective United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
  • verb transitive To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
  • verb transitive To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
  • verb transitive To amount in the aggregate to.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb amount in the aggregate to

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English aggregat, from Latin aggregātus, past participle of aggregāre, to add to : ad-, ad- + gregāre, to collect (from grex, greg-, flock; see ger- in Indo-European roots).]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin aggregātus, perfect passive participle of aggregō ("I flock together"), from ag-, combining form of ad ("to, toward"), + gregō ("I flock or group"), from grex ("flock"). Compare gregarious.

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  • In botany, used to describe a plant or flower formed of florets collected in a dense cluster but not cohering, as the daisy. Also used to describe fruit that's composed of a cluster of carpels belonging to the same flower, such as the raspberry.

    November 14, 2007

  • This word is typed with three fingers of the left hand, a joy for lefties like me. Who needs a right hand anyway?

    February 26, 2011

  • Species death like this is nothing more than a shift in the aggregate psychic agenda. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.

    March 3, 2012