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ag·gre·gate

(ăg′rĭ-gĭt)

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.

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. (-gāt′) ag·gre·gat·ed, ag·gre·gat·ing, ag·gre·gates

v.tr.

1. To gather into a mass, sum, or whole: aggregated the donations into one bank account.

2. To amount to; total: Revenues will aggregate more than one million dollars.

3. To collect (content from different sources on the internet) into one webpage or newsreader.

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). "The first stars began to form when hydrogen and helium gas left over from the Big Bang aggregated into dense clouds" (Paul Davies).

Idiom:

in the aggregate

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; see ger- in Indo-European roots).]

ag′gre·gate·ly adv.

ag′gre·ga′tion n.

ag′gre·ga′tive adj.

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Adj.

aggregated - 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"

aggregate, aggregative, mass

collective - forming a whole or aggregate

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Because, as has been elsewhere noticed, those whales, influenced by some views to safety, now swim the seas in immense caravans, so that to a large degree the scattered solitaries, yokes, and pods, and schools of other days are now aggregated into vast but widely separated, unfrequent armies.

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These latter cells are nearly spherical and of nearly equal sizes, and are aggregated into an irregular mass.

Hence it would continually be more and more advantageous to our humble-bee, if she were to make her cells more and more regular, nearer together, and aggregated into a mass, like the cells of the Melipona; for in this case a large part of the bounding surface of each cell would serve to bound other cells, and much wax would be saved.

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The soil can be considered in terms of an aggregated state of soil particles, with its breakdown resulting from the continuous exposure to a variety of mechanisms that impart energy such as raindrop impact, irrigation, and cultivation (Jastrow and Miller 1991; Agassi et al.

Modelling aggregate liberation and dispersion of three soil types exposed to ultrasonic agitation

1.469-2(f)(6) is not included in the computation of passive activity losses (PALs), even if the self-rental activity is aggregated with the taxpayer's other passive activities under Pegs.