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Dictionary: ag·gre·gate   (ăg'rĭ-gĭt) pronunciation
 
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.
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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.
 
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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: The total sum or mass of something.

pronunciation Martin looked at his accounts in an aggregate sense.

 
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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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