 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
aggregation
noun
1: several things grouped together or considered as a whole
[syn: {collection}, {accumulation}, {assemblage}]
2: the act of gathering something together [syn: {collection},
{collecting}, {assembling}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aggregation \Ag'gre*ga"tion\, noun [Cf. LL. aggregatio, F.
agr['e]gation.]
The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated;
collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars;
an aggregate.
Each genus is made up by aggregation of species.
--Carpenter.
A nation is not an idea only of local extent and
individual momentary aggregation, but . . . of
continuity, which extends in time as well as in
numbers, and in space. --Burke.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "aggregation":
Anschluss, accumulation, acervation, addition, affiliation,
agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregate, agreement,
alliance, amalgamation, amassment, articulation, assemblage,
assembly, assimilation, association, backlog, blend, blending,
bond, bracketing, cabal, cartel, centralization, chunk, clustering,
coalescence, coalition, collection, colluvies, combination,
combine, combo, communication, company, composition, concatenation,
concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence,
congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, conjugation,
conjunction, connection, consolidation, conspiracy, convergence,
copulation, coupling, crowd, cumulation, ecumenism, embodiment,
encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, fusion,
gathering, glomeration, gob, group, hoard, hookup, hunk, inclusion,
incorporation, integration, intercommunication, intercourse,
interlinking, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, junta,
knotting, league, liaison, linkage, linking, lump, marriage, mass,
meeting, meld, melding, merger, merging, muster, package,
package deal, pairing, reserve, ruck, snowball, solidification,
splice, stockpile, symbiosis, syncretism, syndication, syneresis,
synthesis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, trove, unification, union, wad,
wedding, yoking
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
aggregation
A composition technique for building a new
{object} from one or more existing objects that support some
or all of the new object's required interfaces.
(1996-01-07)
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