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Webster 1913 Edition

Aggregate

Ag′gre-gate

,
Verb.
T.
[
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.

Ag′gre-gate

,
Adj.
[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.
(Zool.)
United into a common organized mass; – said of certain compound animals.
Corporation aggregate
.
(Law)
See under
Corporation
.

Ag′gre-gate

,
Noun.
1.
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars;
as, a house is an
aggregate
of stone, brick, timber, etc.
☞ 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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Aggregate

AG'GREGATE

, v.t [L. aggrego, to collect in troops, of ad and grex, a herd or band. See Gregarious.]
To bring together; to collect particulars into a sum, mass or body.

AG'GREGATE

,
Adj.
Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; as, the aggregate amount of charges.
Aggregate flowers, in botany, are such as are composed of florets united by means of the receptacle or calyx.
Aggregate corporation, in law, is one which consists of two or more persons united, whose existence is preserved by a succession of new members.

AG'GREGATE

,
Noun.
A sum, mass or assemblage of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stones, bricks, timber, &c. It differs from a compound in this, that the particulars of an aggregate are less intimately mixed than in a compound.

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