Ag"gre*gate , n.
1. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
&fist;
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.
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.
(Zoöl.) United
into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound
animals.
Corporation aggregate. (Law)
See under Corporation.
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.
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