p. pr. ad + gregare to collect into a
flock, grex flock, herd. See Gregarious.) 1.
To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. The
aggregated soil. Milton.
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.
aggregate (?), a. (L. aggregatus,p. p.) 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. l.) United into a common
organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.
Corporation aggregate. (Law) See under
Corporation.
aggregate , n. 1. Amass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate
of stone, brick, timber, etc.
f 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.
