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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aggregate \Ag"gre*gate\, noun
1. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
Note: 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aggregate \Ag"gre*gate\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aggregate \Ag"gre*gate\, adjective [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. (Zo["o]l.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.
{Corporation aggregate}. (Law) See under {Corporation}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
aggregate
adjective
1: gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness" [syn: {aggregated}, {aggregative}, {mass}]
2: formed of separate units in a cluster; "raspberries are aggregate fruits"
noun
1: a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together [syn: {congeries}, {conglomeration}]
2: the whole amount [syn: {sum}, {total}, {totality}]
verb
1: amount in the aggregate to
2: gather in a mass, sum, or whole [syn: {combine}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
175 Moby Thesaurus words for "aggregate": A to Z, A to izzard, account, accumulate, accumulated, accumulation, acervation, add up, add up to, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate to, aggregation, aggroup, all, all and sundry, all-embracing, all-inclusive, alpha and omega, amass, amassed, amassment, amount, amount to, assemblage, assemble, assembled, batch, be-all, be-all and end-all, beginning and end, box score, bring together, budget, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, bunched, bundled, cast, chunk, clump, clumped, cluster, clustered, collect, collected, colligate, collocate, combine, combined, come, come to, compare, compile, complement, comprehensive, comprise, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregate, congregated, contain, corral, count, cumulate, cumulation, difference, dig up, draw together, dredge up, drive together, each and every, entire, entirety, everything, exhaustive, fascicled, fasciculated, gather, gather in, gather together, gathered, gathering, get in, get together, glomerate, glomeration, gob, gross, group, heaped, holistic, hunk, in session, inclusive, integral, integrated, join, joined, joint, juxtapose, knotted, leagued, length and breadth, lump, lump together, lumped, make up, mass, massed, match, meeting, mobilize, mount up to, muster, number, omnibus, one, one and all, one and indivisible, package, package deal, packaged, pair, partner, piled, product, put together, quantity, quantum, raise, rake up, rally, reckon up to, reckoning, round up, run into, run to, score, scrape together, set, snowball, stacked, stockpile, sum, sum total, summation, take up, tale, tally, the bottom line, the corpus, the ensemble, the entirety, the lot, the story, the whole, the whole range, the whole story, tot up to, total, totality, tote, tote up to, unitize, universal, wad, whip in, whole, wrapped up, x number
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