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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 1.6 [wn]: aggregate adj 1: gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole; "the aggregate amount of indebtedness" [syn: {aggregative}, {mass}] 2: (botany) formed of separate units in a cluster; "raspberries are aggregate fruits" n 1: the whole [syn: {sum}, {total}, {totality}] 2: a sum total of many miscellaneous things [syn: {congeries}, {conglomeration}] v 1: amount in the aggregate to 2: gather in a mass, sum, or whole [syn: {combine}]
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