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Aggregate   /ˈægrəgət/  /ˈægrəgɪt/  /ˈægrəgeɪt/   Listen
Aggregate

adjective
1.
Formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole.  Synonyms: aggregated, aggregative, mass.  "The aggregated amount of indebtedness"
2.
Composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets.
noun
1.
The whole amount.  Synonyms: sum, total, totality.
2.
Material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster.
3.
A sum total of many heterogenous things taken together.  Synonyms: congeries, conglomeration.
verb
(past & past part. aggregated; pres. part. aggregating)
1.
Amount in the aggregate to.
2.
Gather in a mass, sum, or whole.  Synonym: combine.



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"Aggregate" Quotes from Famous Books



... whose aggregate revenues, very unequally apportioned, amounted to 251,000 ducats. The church livings in Aragon were much fewer and leaner than in Castile. (Cosas Memorables, fol. 23.) The Venetian Navagiero, speaks of the metropolitan church of Toledo, ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V3 • William H. Prescott
... hundred tons, and nine gun-boats of five hundred. The latter had been hurriedly built to meet the special exigencies of this war, and were then commonly known as the "ninety-day" gunboats. Each carried one eleven-inch shell-gun and one thirty-pounder rifle. The aggregate batteries of the seventeen vessels composing the squadron, excluding some light brass pieces, amounted to one hundred and fifty-four cannon, of which one hundred and thirty-five ...
— Admiral Farragut • A. T. Mahan
... pressure, and restore us to a wholesome state of national prosperity. This will occasion no dangerous experiment, and will be gradually followed up by a progressive conversion, by which all the conflicting interests of society will be neutralized, and the aggregate wealth, and prosperity, and happiness of the ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 20. No. 568 - 29 Sept 1832 • Various
... at the discrepancy between the aggregate of troops forwarded to McClellan and the number that same general reported as having received, Lincoln exclaimed: "Sending men to that army is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard—half of ...
— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure
... in the ceremonial there was danger of a laugh from the aggregate, overwrought nerves when Charlotte promptly named herself without waiting for Nell's response which came late but in time to ...
— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess


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