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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aggregate aggregates aggregated aggregating

Now, with AI summaries and LLMs, Baden and her colleagues have to be creative with how they write updates to this map to ensure LLMs aggregate the information accurately.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

It said its aggregate initial lease commitment is about $12.3 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

It has received more than $125 million in aggregate U.S. government awards supporting national-security applications, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

So far for the second quarter, S&P 500 companies have notched 50.4% earnings growth in aggregate, when combining estimates and actual results, according to the FactSet report.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 9, 2026

For instance, California’s native hunter-gatherers initially numbered about 200,000 in aggregate, but they were splintered among a hundred tribelets, none of which required a war to be defeated.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

When the researchers made the polymer film thinner, many small polymer aggregates appeared across the surface.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 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

One possibility would be to engineer immune cells so they could target and break down amyloid and tau aggregates associated with neurodegenerative diseases.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

Martin Marietta’s main aggregates business focuses on heavy materials like crushed stone and has posted strong financial results for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 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

Then she aggregated them over the six-month annualized change.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

And a State Department spokesperson said the material requested was the same aggregated and de-identified data which has been used for years in the fight against infectious diseases.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

The data only needs to be aggregated; red-flag algorithms need to be programmed in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Goldman Sachs analyst Mark Delaney says they are likely to hit 420,000, better than the 409,000 consensus estimate aggregated by FactSet.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

Activity aggregated over many markets gets chunked into the economy.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

Artificial-intelligence platforms are better at aggregating opinions on the web than they are at any deep thought or creativity.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 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 Times then conducted its own spatial analysis, aggregating census data to conform with the neighborhoods defined by Los Angeles Times Mapping L.A. neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024

There firemen were directing streams of water that poured over the premises in great cascades in volume, aggregating many tons.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various

Related Words

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