Aggregate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Aggregate	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
aggregate adj formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness" Synonym(s): aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets; "raspberries are aggregate fruits" n the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate] material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together Synonym(s): aggregate, congeries, conglomeration v amount in the aggregate to gather in a mass, sum, or whole Synonym(s): aggregate, combine
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Aggregate \Ag"gregate\, 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[94]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"gregate\, 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. [bd]The aggregated soil.[b8] --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"gregate\, 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.