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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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 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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