4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Aggregate \Ag"gre*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Aggregated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Aggregating}.] [L. aggregatus, p. p. of
aggregare to lead to a flock or herd; ad + gregare to collect
into a flock, grex flock, herd. See {Gregarious}.]
1. To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. ``The
aggregated soil.'' --Milton.
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. --Wollaston.
3. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating
five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]
Syn: To heap up; accumulate; pile; collect.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Aggregate \Ag"gre*gate\, a. [L. aggregatus, p. p.]
1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or
sum; collective.
The aggregate testimony of many hundreds. --Sir T.
Browne.
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. (Zo["o]l.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of
certain compound animals.
{Corporation aggregate}. (Law) See under {Corporation}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Aggregate \Ag"gre*gate\, 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
aggregate
adj 1: gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole;
"aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions
combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount
of indebtedness" [syn: {aggregated}, {aggregative}, {mass}]
2: formed of separate units in a cluster; "raspberries are
aggregate fruits"
n 1: a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together [syn:
{congeries}, {conglomeration}]
2: the whole amount [syn: {sum}, {total}, {totality}]
v 1: amount in the aggregate to
2: gather in a mass, sum, or whole [syn: {combine}]