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Aggregate   /ˈægrəgət/  /ˈægrəgɪt/  /ˈægrəgeɪt/   Listen
Aggregate

adjective
1.
Formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole.  Synonyms: aggregated, aggregative, mass.  "The aggregated amount of indebtedness"
2.
Composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets.
noun
1.
The whole amount.  Synonyms: sum, total, totality.
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.  Synonyms: congeries, conglomeration.
verb
(past & past part. aggregated; pres. part. aggregating)
1.
Amount in the aggregate to.
2.
Gather in a mass, sum, or whole.  Synonym: combine.



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"Aggregate" Quotes from Famous Books



... means of preventing the results of wrongful acts. So, while education does not make the voter honest, it enables him to protect himself against the frauds of others, and not only increases his power but inspires him to resist violence. So that, in the aggregate, you Northerners are right in the boast which you make that intelligence makes a people stronger ...
— Bricks Without Straw • Albion W. Tourgee
... diameter of only a quarter of that of the whole cup, in the middle of which it was placed; the cup thus tends to become filled up in the middle. The cup, in its fully developed condition, is seated at the very bottom of the cavity in the rock. From the aggregate thickness of the several component layers forming the cup, the old and mature animal rises a little in its burrow; for instance, the bottom of the cup in one specimen which I measured, was 4/10ths of ...
— A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) - The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes • Charles Darwin
... where a President in his annual message made reference to only one question. His vetoes are more numerous than those of any other Chief Executive, amounting within the four years to over three hundred, or more than twice the number in the aggregate of all his predecessors. These vetoes relate to almost all subjects of legislation, but mainly to pension cases and bills providing for the erection of public buildings ...
— Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. VIII.: James A. Garfield • James D. Richardson
... dissentient minorities are tolerated and protected. Under the absolute freedom and equality of the American system there is not so much as a predominance of any one of the sects. No one of them is so strong and numerous but that it is outnumbered and outweighed by the aggregate of the two next to it. At present, in consequence of the rush of immigration, the Roman Catholic Church is largely in advance of any single denomination besides, but is inferior in numerical strength and popular influence to the Methodists and Baptists combined—if they ...
— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon
... easily shew You, how sleightly and superficially our Guntherus talks of the dividing the flame of Green Wood into his four Elements; When he makes that vapour to be air, which being caught in Glasses and condens'd, presently discovers it self to have been but an Aggregate of innumerable very minute drops of Liquor; and When he would prove the Phlegmes being compos'd of Fire by that Heat which is adventitious to the Liquor, and ceases upon the absence of what produc'd ...
— The Sceptical Chymist • Robert Boyle


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