Aggregate \Ag"gre*gate\, n.
   1. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is
      an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
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   Note: In an aggregate the particulars are less intimately
         mixed than in a compound.
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   2. (Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous
      particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by
      the union of heterogeneous particles.
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   In the aggregate, collectively; together.
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	Aggregate \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.
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   2. To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
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            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.
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   3. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating
      five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]
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   Syn: To heap up; accumulate; pile; collect.
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	Aggregate \Ag"gre*gate\, a. [L. aggregatus, p. p.]
   1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or
      sum; collective.
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            The aggregate testimony of many hundreds. --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.
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   2. (Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as,
      aggregate glands.
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   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.
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   4. (Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent
      to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by
      mechanical means.
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   5. (Zool.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of
      certain compound animals.
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   Corporation aggregate. (Law) See under Corporation.
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	aggregate
     adj 1: gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole;
            "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions
            combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount
            of indebtedness" [syn: aggregated, aggregative, mass]
     2: formed of separate units in a cluster; "raspberries are
        aggregate fruits"
     n 1: a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together [syn:
           congeries, conglomeration]
     2: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality]
     v 1: amount in the aggregate to
     2: gather in a mass, sum, or whole [syn: combine]

	

	175 Moby Thesaurus words for "aggregate":
   A to Z, A to izzard, 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

	

	AGGREGATE. A collection of particular persons or items, formed into one
body; as a corporation aggregate, which is one formed of a number of natural
persons; the union of individual charges make an aggregate charge.