Hyper Dictionary

English Dictionary Computer Dictionary Thesaurus Dream Dictionary Medical Dictionary


Search Dictionary:  

Meaning of AGGREGATE

Pronunciation:  [v]'agri`geyt, 'agrigut

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the whole amount
  2. [n]  a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
  3. [adj]  gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole; "the aggregate amount of indebtedness"
  4. [adj]  (botany) formed of separate units in a cluster; "raspberries are aggregate fruits"
  5. [v]  gather in a mass, sum, or whole
  6. [v]  amount in the aggregate to
 
 Websites: 
 
 Synonyms: aggregative, collective, combine, congeries, conglomeration, mass, multiple, sum, total, totality
 
 See Also: add up, amalgamate, amount, come, commix, mingle, mix, nekton, plankton, sum, sum total, summation, unify, unit, unitise, unitize, whole, whole thing

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \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.
    
  2. \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}.
    
  3. \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.
    
 
 Websites: 
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: A to izzard, A to Z, account, accumulate, accumulated, accumulation, acervation, add up, add up to, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate to, aggregation, aggroup, all, all and sundry, all-embracing, all-inclusive, alpha and omega, amass, amassed, amassment, amount, amount to, assemblage, assemble, assembled, batch, be-all, be-all and end-all, beginning and end, box score, bring together, budget, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, bunched, bundled, cast, chunk, clump, clumped, cluster, clustered, collect, collected, colligate, collocate, combine, combined, come, come to, compare, compile, complement, comprehensive, comprise, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregate, congregated, contain, corral, count, cumulate, cumulation, difference, dig up, draw together, dredge up, drive together, each and every, entire, entirety, everything, exhaustive, fascicled, fasciculated, gather, gather in, gather together, gathered, gathering, get in, get together, glomerate, glomeration, gob, gross, group, heaped, holistic, hunk, in session, inclusive, integral, integrated, join, joined, joint, juxtapose, knotted, leagued, length and breadth, lump, lump together, lumped, make up, mass, massed, match, meeting, mobilize, mount up to, muster, number, omnibus, one, one and all, one and indivisible, package, package deal, packaged, pair, partner, piled, product, put together, quantity, quantum, raise, rake up, rally, reckon up to, reckoning, round up, run into, run to, score, scrape together, set, snowball, stacked, stockpile, sum, sum total, summation, take up, tale, tally, the bottom line, the corpus, the ensemble, the entirety, the lot, the story, the whole, the whole range, the whole story, tot up to, total, totality, tote, tote up to, unitize, universal, wad, whip in, whole, wrapped up, x number
 

 

 

 

COPYRIGHT © 2000-2003 WEBNOX CORP. HOME | ABOUT HYPERDICTIONARY