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ag·gre·gate A0141100 (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.n.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.aggregation (ˌæɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən) n1. the act or process of aggregating2. (Environmental Science) ecology dispersion in which the individuals of a species are closer together than if they were randomly dispersedag•gre•ga•tion (ˌæg rɪˈgeɪ ʃən) n. 1. a group or mass of distinct or varied things, persons, etc. 2. collection into an unorganized whole. 3. the state of being so collected. 4. a group of organisms of the same or different species living closely together but less integrated than a society. [1540–50; < Medieval Latin] ag`gre•ga′tion•al, adj. Aggregation a collection of parts of a whole; a natural group or body of human beings. See also assemblage, collection, gathering.Examples: an aggregation of believers, 1638; of isolated settlements, 1863; of species.aggregationA service that allows a customer to view related information from a wide range of online sources on one website. For example, providing information about airfares from a range of different companies over the same route .ThesaurusNoun | 1. | aggregation - several things grouped together or considered as a wholecollection, accumulation, assemblagegroup, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unitprocession - the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation; "processions were forbidden"pharmacopoeia - a collection or stock of drugsstring - a collection of objects threaded on a single strandwardrobe - collection of clothing belonging to one personwardrobe - collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical companyuniverse, population - (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"armamentarium - the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicineart collection - a collection of art worksbacklog - an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services)battery - a collection of related things intended for use together; "took a battery of achievement tests"block - a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit; "he reserved a large block of seats"; "he held a large block of the company's stock"rule book, book - a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; "they run things by the book around here"book - a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card gamebottle collection - a collection of bottles; "her bottle collection is arranged on glass shelves in the window"caboodle, bunch, lot - any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle"coin collection - a collection of coinscollage - any collection of diverse things; "a collage of memories"content - everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something; "he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were similar in content"tout ensemble, ensemble - an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a wholecorpus - a collection of writings; "he edited the Hemingway corpus"crop - a collection of people or things appearing together; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"tenantry - tenants of an estate considered as a groupfindings - a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoesflagging - flagstones collectively; "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place"flinders - bits and splinters and fragments; "it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage"pack - a complete collection of similar thingsdeal, hand - the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time; "I didn't hold a good hand all evening"; "he kept trying to see my hand"long suit - in a hand, the suit having the most cardsherbarium - a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for studystamp collection - a collection of stampsstatuary - statues collectivelysum total, summation, sum - the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"agglomeration - a jumbled collection or massgimmickry - a collection of gimmicksnuclear club - the nations possessing nuclear weaponscumulation, heap, pile, agglomerate, cumulus, mound - a collection of objects laid on top of each othermass - an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)combination - a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualitiescongregation - an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together; "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over"hit parade - a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kindJudaica - historical and literary materials relating to Judaismkludge - a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together)program library, subroutine library, library - (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate uselibrary - a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowingmythology - myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or personbiota, biology - all the plant and animal life of a particular regionfauna, zoology - all the animal life in a particular region or period; "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch" | | 2. | aggregation - the act of gathering something togetherassembling, collecting, collectiongrouping - the activity of putting things together in groupsagglomeration - the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomeratingcollation - assembling in proper numerical or logical sequencecompiling, compilation - the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list); "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours"gather, gathering - the act of gathering somethingbottle collection - the activity of collecting bottles; "bottle collection is a hobby of hers"conchology, shell collecting - the collection and study of mollusc shellscoin collecting, numismatics, numismatology, coin collection - the collection and study of money (and coins in particular)pickup - the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places; "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"philately, stamp collecting, stamp collection - the collection and study of postage stampstax collection - the collection of taxes |
aggregationnoun collection, body, mass, combination, pile, mixture, bulk, lump, heap, accumulation, assemblage, agglomeration Society is more than just an aggregation of individuals.aggregationnounA quantity accumulated:accumulation, amassment, assemblage, collection, congeries, cumulation, gathering, mass.TranslationsAggregatAggregationAnsammlungσυνάθροισηagrégationaggregazioneагрегацияагрегированиеIdiomsSeeaggregateaggregation
aggregation See accretion.aggregation the process of combining diverse political interests to form a more or less coherent set of policies which can form a political programme. In representative democracies, according to Almond (1953), this function is especially undertaken by POLITICAL PARTIES, whereas the related function of interest articulation is carried out particularly by interest groups and PRESSURE GROUPS.aggregation[‚ag·rə′gā·shən] (biology) A grouping or clustering of separate organisms. (chemistry) A process that results in the formation of aggregates. (fluid mechanics) axisymmetrization aggregation (programming)A composition technique for building a newobject from one or more existing objects that support someor all of the new object's required interfaces.aggregation
aggregation [ag″rĕ-ga´shun] 1. massing or clumping of materials together.2. a clumped mass of material.familial aggregation the occurrence of more cases of a given disorder in close relatives of a person with the disorder than in control families.platelet aggregation platelet agglutination.ag·gre·ga·tion (ag-rĕ-gā'shŭn), A crowded mass of independent but similar units; a cluster. Synonym(s): agglomerationAggregation Epidemiology A term of art referring to a lopsided distribution of parasites among hosts, with some hosts suffering a greater infestation than would be expected by chance alone. Vox populi A massing of material; clumping.ag·gre·ga·tion (ag'rĕ-gā'shŭn) A crowded mass of independent but similar units; a cluster. aggregation a clumping or clustering of individuals of a population in a non-random distribution. Such clumping can occur - as a response to local habitat differences, e.g. some organisms preferring, say, damp to dry areas;
- as a response to daily or seasonal weather changes;
- by reproductive processes, e.g. individuals hatching from the same egg batch in some animals, or poor seed dispersal in plants;
- as a result of social attraction, e.g. colonial nesting in birds.
AggregationThe blood cell clumping process that is measured in the platelet aggregation test.Mentioned in: Platelet Aggregation TestLegalSeeAggregateAggregation
AggregationProcess in corporate financial planning whereby the smaller investment proposals of each of the firm's operational units are aggregated and effectively treated as a whole.Aggregation1. A composite report of all futures positions held by a single trader. Aggregations are used to ensure that reports are accurate and regulations are followed.
2. In corporate financial planning, the combination of several, small investments such that they are treated as one, large investment.aggregation Related to aggregation: data aggregationSynonyms for aggregationnoun collectionSynonyms- collection
- body
- mass
- combination
- pile
- mixture
- bulk
- lump
- heap
- accumulation
- assemblage
- agglomeration
Synonyms for aggregationnoun a quantity accumulatedSynonyms- accumulation
- amassment
- assemblage
- collection
- congeries
- cumulation
- gathering
- mass
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