aggregation

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  1. The act of collecting or the state of being collected into an unorganized whole. By “material aggregation” being meant the way in which, by nature or by art, the molecules of matter are arranged together. Tyndall. Wanting any great and acknowledged centre of national life and thought, our expansion has hitherto been rather aggregation than growth. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 83.
  2. In logic, the union of species to form a genus, or of terms to form a term true of anything of which any of its parts are true, and only false when all its parts are false.
  3. The adding of any one to an association as a member thereof; affiliation. [Rare.] The second [book] recounts his aggregation to the society of free-masons. Monthly Rev., XX. 537. (N. E. D.)
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  • Most of this aggregation is aimed at AdSense users; grouping trying to make money by allowing Google to locate PPC ads on their websites. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • When I hear the word aggregation, I reach for my revolver.
  • It didn't seem like the aggregation was adding any value to the constituent weblogs. —  The Moderate Voice
  • He says - maybe it's true of Manchester United as well - that a big factor in success is what he calls the aggregation of minute di ff erences. —  The Guardian World News
  • This is necessarily so because in a context of voluntary self-aggregation, there is no basis for traditional hierarchical command and control, since there is no wage and livelyhood dependency. —  P2P Foundation
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  1. from Middle Latin aggregatio(n-), from Latin aggregare: see aggregate, v.
 

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