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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Aggregate

Ăg'gre-gāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. AGGREGATED; p. pr. & vb. n. AGGREGATING.] [Lat. aggregare, to lead to a herd or flock, from ad and gregare, to collect into a flock, from grex, flock, herd; Fr. agréger, Pr. agregar, Sp. agregar, Pg. aggregar, It. aggregare. See GREGARIOUS.] To bring together; to collect into a sum or mass. “The aggregated soil.” Milton.

Synonyms—To heap up; accumulate; pile; collect.

Ag'gre-gate, a.

adjective

(45), a. [Lat. aggregatus, p. p. of aggregare.]

  1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum. “The aggregate testimony of many hundreds.” Browne.
  2. (Anat.) Formed into clusters; as, aggregate glands.
  3. (Bot.) Composed of florets united within a common receptacle or calyx. Henslow.
  4. (Geol.) Combined into one rock, as the different minerals that compose granite. Dana.
  5. (Law.) United in one body corporate, with a capacity of succession and perpetuity; as, an aggregate corporation. Kent.
  6. (Zoöl.) United into a common organized mass.
A botanical drawing of an aggregate flower on a stem.
Aggregate Flower.

Ăg'gre-gate, n.

noun

(45), n. 1. A sum, mass, or assemblage of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, &c. It differs from a compound in this, that the particulars of an aggregate 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. Ure.