aggregate

American  

[ag-ri-git, -geyt, ag-ri-geyt] / ˈæg rɪ gɪt, -ˌgeɪt, ˈæg rɪˌgeɪt /

adjective

1. formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined.

   the aggregate amount of indebtedness.

   Synonyms:

   whole, complete

2. Botany.

   1. (of a flower) formed of florets collected in a dense cluster but not cohering, as the daisy.

   2. (of a fruit) composed of a cluster of carpels belonging to the same flower, as the raspberry.

3. Geology. (of a rock) consisting of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.

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noun

• aggregates
  plural

1. a sum, mass, or assemblage of particulars; a total or gross amount.

   the aggregate of all past experience.

2. a cluster of soil particles: an aggregate larger than 250 micrometers in diameter, as the size of a small crumb, is technically regarded as a macroaggregate.

3. any of various loose, particulate materials, as sand, gravel, or pebbles, added to a cementing agent to make concrete, plaster, etc.

4. Mathematics. set.

verb (used with object)

• aggregates,
  present (3rd person singular)
• aggregated,
  past participle,  past
• aggregating
  present participle

1. to bring together; collect into one sum, mass, or body.

   Synonyms:

   gather, accumulate, amass, assemble

2. to amount to (the number of ).

   The guns captured will aggregate five or six hundred.

verb (used without object)

• aggregates,
  present (3rd person singular)
• aggregated,
  past participle,  past
• aggregating
  present participle

1. to combine and form a collection or mass.

idioms

1. in the aggregate, taken or considered as a whole.

   In the aggregate, our losses have been relatively small.

aggregate British  

/ ˈæɡrɪˌɡeɪtɪv /

adjective

1. formed of separate units collected into a whole; collective; corporate

2. (of fruits and flowers) composed of a dense cluster of carpels or florets

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noun

1. a sum or assemblage of many separate units; sum total

2. geology a rock, such as granite, consisting of a mixture of minerals

3. the sand and stone mixed with cement and water to make concrete

4. a group of closely related biotypes produced by apomixis, such as brambles, which are the Rubus fruticosus aggregate

5. taken as a whole

verb

1. to combine or be combined into a body, etc

2. (tr) to amount to (a number)

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• aggregateness
  noun
• hyperaggregate
  verb
• reaggregate
  verb
• aggregable
  adjective
• aggregately
  adjective
• aggregative
  adjective
• aggregatory
  adjective
• subaggregate
  adjective
• unaggregated
  adjective
• aggregately
  adverb
• subaggregately
  adverb

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• aggregates
  plural

Participles

• aggregating
  present
• aggregated
  past

Conjugated Forms

Present

• aggregate
  simple
• aggregates
  simple
• have aggregated
  perfect
• has aggregated
  perfect
• am aggregating
  progressive
• are aggregating
  progressive
• is aggregating
  progressive
• have been aggregating
  perfect progressive
• has been aggregating
  perfect progressive

Past

• aggregated
  simple
• had aggregated
  perfect
• was aggregating
  progressive
• were aggregating
  progressive
• had been aggregating
  perfect progressive

Future

• will aggregate
  simple
• will have aggregated
  perfect
• will be aggregating
  progressive
• will have been aggregating
  perfect progressive

Etymology

Origin of aggregate

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, from Latin aggregātus (past participle of aggregāre ), equivalent to ag- ag- + greg- (stem of grex “flock”) + -ātus -ate ¹

Explanation

To aggregate is to collect many units into one. If you're writing a novel, you might create a character who is an aggregate of five or six real people. Aggregate comes from the Latin verb aggregare, which means to add to. As a verb it means to collect into a mass or whole. You can also use it as an adjective, as in your aggregate sales for February, March and April. It can also be a noun. The mountain of foam in bubble bath is an aggregate of small bubbles. If you plan to work in economics or business, expect to see the word aggregate quite a lot.

Example Sentences

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So the past three matches in Europe have had no more than a point in them and the home team and the US are tied on aggregate at 42 points apiece.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

"Markets aggregate information no committee possesses, and prices are how that information reaches decision makers," Druckenmiller said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last month.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

The 15 partnerships with global firms it has disclosed have an aggregate headline contract value exceeding $11 billion and suggest it can convert hypotheses into development assets and commercial transactions at scale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The company has also committed to pay an aggregate of $50 million through 2028 for OpenAI software and tools, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

He would be leaving soon to spend four weeks in the “bush,” where he and dozens of other boys would join an aggregate of elders and learn what it means to be a Xhosa man.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

CoinMarketCap data, which aggregates prices from a handful of crypto exchanges, showed $LAPTOP’s price soared out of the gate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

The dashboard also aggregates forecasts that put El Nino on course to peak at a 3.9C anomaly this November -- well above the 3C anomaly detected in the 2015 El Nino.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Such cells might eventually be given to people preventively, before those damaging aggregates begin accumulating.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

When the grid operates normally, it aggregates the batteries to feed electricity back to the system during periods of peak demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

If this was not the case, however, we could not see how the DNA molecules packed together to form the crystalline aggregates studied by Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

To call these aggregated shows “adult” is kind; to call them “transgressive” doesn’t do them justice; to call them “shows” is a stretch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Recent data on the enforcement amounts are not publicly available, but a 2021 report shows aggregated collections of about $700 million a year, while Medicaid’s annual total spending is close to $1 trillion.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

While the official death toll remains 181, an aggregated figure gathered from local officials puts it higher - potentially at more than 240.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Estimates aggregated by Bloomberg average closer to 400,000.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Activity aggregated over many markets gets chunked into the economy.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The risk in these new personal-finance tools is that they’re aggregating your financial information in a less regulated system that you don’t control.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

At best, they offer marginal gains in aggregating information, telling us what a group of traders thinks might happen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

McTaggart sees real potential for AI in the administrative side of agency work — organizing offers, standardizing contracts, aggregating sales data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

Companies such as Zillow Rentals and CoStar’s Apartments.com have been successful in democratizing access to listings by aggregating the supply in one location.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

The pressure was great on Thursday, when 29,878 telegrams, aggregating 799,926 words, had to be sent off.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

Related Words

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