Definition of AGGREGATE

aggregate

Meanings

Plural: aggregates

Noun

  • the whole amount
  • 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
  • A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
  • A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
  • A set (collection of objects).
  • The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
  • The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.
  • Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
  • Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements; especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
  • Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
  • A mechanical mixture of more than one phase.

Verb

  • amount in the aggregate to
  • gather in a mass, sum, or whole
  • To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
  • To add or unite (e.g. a person), to an association.
  • To amount in the aggregate to.

Adjective Satellite

  • 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"
  • composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets
    • "raspberries are aggregate fruits"

Adj

  • Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
  • Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
  • Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
  • Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
  • Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
  • United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English aggregat(e) (“a sum, unit, complex, aggregate”), borrowed from New Latin aggregātum (“an aggregate”), substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of aggregātus, the perfect passive participle of aggregō (“to flock together”), from ad- (“at, to, toward”)) + gregō (“to flock or group”), from grex (“flock”, greg- in compounds) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See also egregious and gregarious.

Antonyms

segregate

Scrabble Score: 12

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Words With Friends Score: 15

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