aggregate

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adj.

1. Constituting or amounting to a whole; total: aggregate sales in that market.
2. Botany. Crowded or massed into a dense cluster.
3. Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.

n.

1. 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).
2. The mineral materials, such as sand or stone, used in making concrete.

v., -gat·ed, -gat·ing, -gates. (-gāt')

v.tr.

1. To gather into a mass, sum, or whole.
2. To amount to; total.

v.intr.

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

1. Taken into account as a whole: Unit sales for December amounted in the aggregate to 100,000.

[Middle English aggregat, from Latin aggregātus, past participle of aggregāre, to add to : ad-, ad- + gregāre, to collect (from grex, greg-, flock).]

aggregately ag'gre·gate·ly adv.
aggregation ag'gre·ga'tion n.
aggregative ag'gre·ga'tive adj.
aggregator ag'gre·ga'tor n.

To gather, collect or assemble. For example, "to aggregate data" means to gather separate sets of data. As a noun, "aggregate data" is data that has been collected from two or more sources. See content aggregator.

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Referring to the sum total of the whole. Aggregate output, for example, is the total of all output during a given period of time.

noun

1. A number or quantity obtained as a result of addition: amount, sum, summation, sum total, total, totality. Archaic tale. See count.
2. An amount or quantity from which nothing is left out or held back: all, entirety, everything, gross, sum, total, totality, whole. Informal work (used in plural). Idioms: everythingbutexceptthe kitchen sink, lock, stock, and barrel, the wholeball of waxkit and caboodlemegillahnine yardsshebang. See part/whole.

verb

1. To bring together so as to increase in mass or number: accrue, accumulate, agglomerate, amass, collect, cumulate, garner, gather, hive, pile up, roll up. See collect/distribute.
2. To come to in number or quantity: amount, number, reach, run into, total. Idioms: add up to. See increase/decrease.

adj

Definition: forming a collection from separate parts
Antonyms: individual, part, particular

n

Definition: collection
Antonyms: individual, one, part

v

Definition: combine into a collection
Antonyms: break up, disperse, divide

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A group of soil particles held together by electrostatic forces, polysaccharide gums, and cementation by carbonates and iron oxides.

1. An inert granular material such as natural sand, manufactured sand, gravel, crushed gravel, crushed stone, vermiculite, perlite, and air-cooled blast-furnace slag, which when bound together into a conglomerate mass by a matrix forms concrete or mortar.
2. An inert granular material that may be added to gypsum plaster.

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[Ge]

A collection of people present in a public setting, all going their separate ways rather than composing a homogeneous group.

A collection of individuals with no internal social structure or basis for persistence. Compare group.

1. massing or clumping of materials together.
2. a clumped mass of material.

• familial a. — the occurrence of more cases of a given disorder in close relatives of an animal with the disorder than in control families.
• platelet a. — platelet agglutination.

IN BRIEF: The total sum or mass of something.

Martin looked at his accounts in an aggregate sense.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - sammenhobning, bunke, totalsum, samlet mængde
adj. - samlet, total, sammenhobet
v. tr. - samle sammen, sammenhobe, sammensætte

idioms:

• in the aggregate    som helhed, sammenlagt, alt i alt
• on aggregate    sammenlagt, i alt, som helhed

Nederlands (Dutch)
totaal, aggregaat, verzameld, complex, zich verenigen, bedragen, toevoegen

Français (French)
n. - total, ensemble, (Constr, Géol) agrégat
adj. - total, collectif, global
v. tr. - s'élever à, agréger, rassembler, former un total de

idioms:

• in the aggregate    dans l'ensemble, en somme
• on aggregate    au total des points (dans le groupe de sélection)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Gesamtheit
adj. - gesamt
v. - betragen

idioms:

• in the aggregate    insgesamt
• on aggregate    nach allen Spielen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - άθροισμα, σύνολο, (οικοδ.) αδρανές δομικό υλικό, συσσωμάτωμα
v. - (συν)αθροίζω, συγκεντρώνω, συμπεριλαμβάνω, συμποσούμαι
adj. - συνολικός, συλλογικός, συγκεντρωτικός, ομαδικός

idioms:

• in the aggregate    συνολικά
• on aggregate    γενικά

Italiano (Italian)
aggregare, ammontare a, aggregato, totale

idioms:

• in the aggregate    nell'insieme, in totale
• on aggregate    in totale

Português (Portuguese)
n. - agregado (m), massa (f)
v. - agregar
adj. - agregado, reunido, total

idioms:

• in the aggregate    no todo, junto, coletivamente
• on aggregate    no total

Русский (Russian)
собирать в одно целое, совокупность, агрегат, совокупный, целый

idioms:

• in the aggregate    в целом, в совокупности
• on aggregate    в целом

Español (Spanish)
n. - agregado, conjunto
adj. - agregado, total, global, colectivo, acumulado
v. tr. - agregar, juntar, unir, sumar

idioms:

• in the aggregate    colectivamente
• on aggregate    en total

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - summa, massa
v. - samla, förena
adj. - total, kollektiv

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
集合体, 聚集物, 骨料, 粒料, 总数, 合计, 聚集的, 合计的, 使聚集, 总计达

idioms:

• in the aggregate    总共, 作为总体
• on aggregate    合计

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 集合體, 聚集物, 骨料, 粒料, 總數, 合計
adj. - 聚集的, 合計的
v. tr. - 使聚集, 總計達

idioms:

• in the aggregate    總共, 作為總體
• on aggregate    合計

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 집합[체], 콘크리트 제조용 자갈, 총계
adj. - 총합의
v. tr. - 집합하다, 총계 ~이 되다

idioms:

• in the aggregate    전체로서, 총계하여

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - ひとつに集められた, 集合花の, 集合した, 集合の
n. - 集合, 総計, 骨材, 集合体
v. - 集める, 統合する, 集まる, 総計となる

idioms:

• in the aggregate    全体として, 総計で
• on aggregate    合計で

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مجموع, حاصل (فعل) يجمع, يكتل, يتجمع, يتكتل (صفه) كلي, إجمالي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮צבר, גוש, תערובת ליצירת בטון, צירוף של יסודות נפרדים, סך-הכל, מינרלים שהתגבשו לסלע‬
adj. - ‮נאספים לגוש אחד, מהווים מינים קרובים מאד שנחשבו קודם למין אחד (ביולוגיה)‬
v. tr. - ‮הסתכם ב-, הצטרפו למכלול‬

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