Aggregate

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.

II. Aggregate ·adj United into a common organized mass;

— said of certain compound animals.

III. Aggregate ·vt To add or unite, as, a person, to an Association.

IV. Aggregate ·adj Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.

V. Aggregate ·vt To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil.".

VI. Aggregate ·vt To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.

VII. Aggregate ·noun A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, ·etc.

VIII. Aggregate ·adj Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

IX. Aggregate ·noun A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles;

— in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

X. Aggregate ·adj Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.