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disaggregate

American  
[dis-ag-ri-gayt] / dɪsˈæg rɪˌgeɪt /

verb (used with object)

disaggregated, disaggregating
  1. to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.


verb (used without object)

disaggregated, disaggregating
  1. to become separated from an aggregate or mass.

disaggregate British  
/ dɪsˈæɡrɪˌɡeɪt /

verb

  1. to separate from a group or mass

  2. to divide into parts

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms


Etymology

Origin of disaggregate

First recorded in 1820–30; dis- 1 + aggregate


Example Sentences

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“People are trying to disaggregate the AI theme,” Ullal told MarketWatch by phone.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

A new U.S. accounting standard approved in 2024 will require companies to disaggregate quarterly expenses into five specific categories, including depreciation, amortization of intangible assets, and employee compensation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

One reason is the deals weren’t just about trade, but also national security and other matters that make them harder to disaggregate.

From Barron's ● Dec. 14, 2025

But it said “their relative role remains impossible to disaggregate from many other factors.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

And can we actually disaggregate the work of a journalist and keep part in London and New York and shift part to India?

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

One key area of reorganization was Uber's delivery business, which Khosrowshahi said would see restaurant, retail and direct delivery units consolidated into teams disaggregated at the global, regional and country level.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Racine students, not disaggregated by length of participation, gained 1.85 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Their data were not disaggregated for alumni and donor-only connections in the Assn. of Independent California Colleges and Universities’ report to the state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

In layman’s terms, Wilson has succeeded in opening up the album’s tracking in such a way that each song’s instrumentation seems disaggregated, less “muddy” in terms of the overarching quality of the mixes.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2023

Studies of racial profiling typically report the total number of people stopped and searched, disaggregated by race.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Critics of that theory have long argued that humans are a product of both genes and environment, and that disaggregating the two is impossible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

By disaggregating the sounds, the remixes succeed in allowing listeners to hear previously unrealized vistas of the recordings.

From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2023

The second element — which you have probably heard of because the industry has been talking about it excitedly — is this thing called Open RAN, which is the idea of disaggregating hardware and software.

From The Verge ● Aug. 9, 2022

He approves of the recently passed Every Student Succeeds Act, which makes states primarily responsible for holding schools accountable for serving all students, and for testing students yearly and disaggregating the results.

From US News ● Jan. 19, 2016

A dangerously near approach to Jupiter in 1841 is believed to have occasioned their disruption, and the disaggregating process thus started was likely to continue.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

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