1. aggregate - Noun
2. aggregate - Adjective
3. aggregate - Verb
4. aggregate - Adjective Satellite
To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."
To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.
Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
Source: Webster's dictionaryScience means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. Paul Valéry
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. Emil Cioran
Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm. Merton Miller
So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices. Merton Miller
I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. Eleanor Catton
The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt. Francis Parkman