[syn: collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Aggregation \Ag`gre*ga"tion\, n. [Cf. LL. aggregatio, F.
agr['e]gation.]
The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated;
collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars;
an aggregate.
[1913 Webster]
Each genus is made up by aggregation of species.
--Carpenter.
[1913 Webster]
A nation is not an idea only of local extent and
individual momentary aggregation, but . . . of
continuity, which extends in time as well as in
numbers, and in space. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
aggregation
n 1: several things grouped together or considered as a whole
[syn: collection, aggregation, accumulation,
assemblage]
2: the act of gathering something together [syn: collection,
collecting, assembling, aggregation]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
aggregation
A composition technique for building a new
object from one or more existing objects that support some
or all of the new object's required interfaces.
(1996-01-07)