ag·gre·gate /ˈægrɪgət/
 合計,總計,集合體(a.)合計的,集合的,聚合的(vt.)(vi.)聚集,集合,合計
 ag·gre·gate /ˈægrɪgət/ 形容詞
 凝聚物,凝聚,集料,聚集體,聚集的,合計的
 aggregate
 聚合; 資料集
 aggregate
 聚合
 aggregate
 聚合 集合 資料集
 Ag·gre·gate v. t.  [imp. & p. p. Aggregated p. pr. & vb. n. Aggregating.]
 1. To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. “The aggregated soil.”
 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 a.
 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, n.
 1. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
 Note: ☞ 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.
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 aggregate
      adj 1: gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole;
             "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions
             combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount
             of indebtedness" [syn: aggregated, aggregative, mass]
      2: formed of separate units in a cluster; "raspberries are
         aggregate fruits"
      n 1: a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together [syn:
            congeries, conglomeration]
      2: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality]
      v 1: amount in the aggregate to
      2: gather in a mass, sum, or whole [syn: combine]