Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Constituting or amounting to a whole; total: aggregate sales in that market.
- adj. Botany Crowded or massed into a dense cluster.
- adj. Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.
- n. A total considered with reference to its constituent parts; a gross amount: "An empire is the aggregate of many states under one common head” ( Edmund Burke).
- n. The mineral materials, such as sand or stone, used in making concrete.
- v. To gather into a mass, sum, or whole.
- v. To amount to; total.
- v. To come together or collect in a mass or whole: "Some [bacteria]aggregate so closely as to mimic a multicellular organism” ( Gina Kolata).
- idiom. in the aggregate Taken into account as a whole: Unit sales for December amounted in the aggregate to 100,000.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- 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.
- n. A sum, mass, or assemblage of particulars; a total or gross amount; any combined whole considered with reference to its constituent parts. An aggregate is essentially a sum, as, for example, a heap of sand, whose parts are loosely or accidentally associated. When the relation between the parts is more intimate — either chemical, as in a molecule or a crystal, or organic, as in a living body, or for the realization of a design, as in a house — the sum ceases to be a mere aggregate and becomes a compound, a combination, an organism, etc. But in a general way anything consisting of distinguishable elements may be called an aggregate of those elements: as, man is an aggregate of structures and organs; a mineral or volcanic aggregate (that is, a compound rock).
- n. Any hard material added to lime to make concrete.
- n. Milit., the total commissioned and enlisted force of any post, department, division, corps, or other command.
- n. 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. So, likewise, a proposition which would be true under any circumstances whatsoever under which anyone of a collection of propositions would be true, but which would under no circumstances be true when none the propositions of that collection were true, would be the aggregate of those propositions as its aggregants.
Wiktionary
- n. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
- n. A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
- n. A set (collection of objects).
- n. The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
- n. Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
- n. 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)
- adj. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up
- adj. consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
- adj. Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.
- adj. Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
- adj. Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
- adj. United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
- v. To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. The aggregated soil.
- v. To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
- v. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. “The
aggregated soil.” - v. To add or unite, .
- v. To amount in the aggregate to.
- adj. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
- adj. Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
- adj. Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
- adj. Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
- adj. United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.
- n. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars
- n. A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a
compound , formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
WordNet 3.0
- v. amount in the aggregate to
- v. gather in a mass, sum, or whole
- n. a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
- n. the whole amount
- adj. composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets
- n. material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster
- adj. formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
Etymologies
- 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).
Examples
“The first is what I call aggregate influence, which is that one person's actions gets aggregated with that of many others and suddenly it has a big impact.”
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“All our premises are in the French Concession, which amount in the aggregate is about 15 thousand taels or 20 thousand Mexican dollars more or less.”
“Who doesn't want you to think in the aggregate is a saleman.”
“AMR's Total Debt, which it defines as the aggregate of its long-term debt, capital lease obligations, the principal amount of airport facility tax-exempt bonds, and the present value of aircraft operating lease obligations, was $15.1 billion at the end of the fourth quarter of”
“Well if people are observed in aggregate to respond to marginal tax rate cuts, then it supports the classical view.”
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“I travel a great deal-in aggregate, three months or more of each year on the road-and having hundreds of books in my pocket is enormously handy.”
“Health Care, Professor Fogel looks at the trends affecting the major factor in aggregate medical expenses: the illnesses of the elderly.”
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“Therefore, again, there is no net increase in aggregate demand.”
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“Although we continued to make progress across some key businesses this quarter, our results in aggregate clearly do not reflect the true potential of Morgan Stanley's global client franchise and I am not satisfied with our overall performance," said Chief Executive James Gorman in a statement.”
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“Well the US will spend more in aggregate because 30 million more people will be paying for insurance and theoretically getting health care, but costs will not rise as fast as they are projected to now.”
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Louises Species death like this is nothing more than a shift in the aggregate psychic agenda. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Mar 3, 2012
hernesheir This word is typed with three fingers of the left hand, a joy for lefties like me. Who needs a right hand anyway? Feb 26, 2011
reesetee 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.
Nov 13, 2007