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NOUN (3)

1. the whole amount;
[syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate]

2. material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster;

3. a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together;
[syn: aggregate, congeries, conglomeration]


VERB (2)

1. amount in the aggregate to;

2. gather in a mass, sum, or whole;
[syn: aggregate, combine]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole;
- Example: "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"
- Example: "the aggregated amount of indebtedness"
[syn: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass]

2. composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets;
- Example: "raspberries are aggregate fruits"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Aggregate \Ag"gre*gate\, n. 1. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc. [1913 Webster] Note: In an aggregate the particulars are less intimately mixed than in a compound. [1913 Webster] 2. (Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles. [1913 Webster] In the aggregate, collectively; together. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] 2. To add or unite, as, a person, to an association. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] Syn: To heap up; accumulate; pile; collect. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Aggregate \Ag"gre*gate\, a. [L. aggregatus, p. p.] 1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective. [1913 Webster] The aggregate testimony of many hundreds. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] 2. (Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 4. (Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means. [1913 Webster] 5. (Zool.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals. [1913 Webster] Corporation aggregate. (Law) See under Corporation. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

aggregate adj 1: formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness" [syn: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass] 2: composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets; "raspberries are aggregate fruits" n 1: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate] 2: material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster 3: a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together [syn: aggregate, congeries, conglomeration] v 1: amount in the aggregate to 2: gather in a mass, sum, or whole [syn: aggregate, combine]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

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.