Aggregate — Defs

01 v. t. To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. “The aggregated soil.”

imp. & p. p. Aggregated; p. pr. & vb. n. Aggregating

1.
To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. “The aggregated soil.”
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.

02 a. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.

1.
Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
“The aggregate testimony of many hundreds.” — Sir T. Browne.
2.
Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.(Anat.)
3.
Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.(Bot.)
4.
Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.(Min. & Geol.)
5.
United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.(Zool.)

Phrases & compounds

Corporation aggregate — See under Corporation.

03 n. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.

1.
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
2.
A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.(Physics)

Phrases & compounds

In the aggregate — collectively; together.