Aggregate Definition–adjective | 1. | formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness. |
| 2. | Botany. | a. | (of a flower) formed of florets collected in a dense cluster but not cohering, as the daisy. |
| b. | (of a fruit) composed of a cluster of carpels belonging to the same flower, as the raspberry. |
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| 3. | Geology. (of a rock) consisting of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means. |
–noun | 4. | a sum, mass, or assemblage of particulars; a total or gross amount: the aggregate of all past experience. |
| 5. | a cluster of soil granules not larger than a small crumb. |
| 6. | any of various loose, particulate materials, as sand, gravel, or pebbles, added to a cementing agent to make concrete, plaster, etc. |
| 7. | Mathematics. set (def. 92). |
–verb (used with object) | 8. | to bring together; collect into one sum, mass, or body. |
| 9. | to amount to (the number of): The guns captured will aggregate five or six hundred. |
–verb (used without object) | 10. | to combine and form a collection or mass. |
—Idiom| 11. | in the aggregate, taken or considered as a whole: In the aggregate, our losses have been relatively small. |
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