"aggregate" - meanings, definitions, synonyms, thesaurus and antonyms

\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.

\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}.

\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.