Definitions for the word "aggregate" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. t.
To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. a.
Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. a.
Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. a.
Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. a.
Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. a.
United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
1 sum total, amount assembled. 2 crushed stone etc. Used in making concrete. 3 rock formed of a mass of different particles or minerals. adj. Combined, collective, total. v. (-ting) 1 collect, combine into one mass. 2 colloq. Amount to. 3 unite. in the aggregate as a whole. aggregation n. Aggregative adj. [latin grex greg- flock]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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