Aggregate

English Meaning

To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."

1. Constituting or amounting to a whole; total: aggregate sales in that market.
2. Botany Crowded or massed into a dense cluster.
3. Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.
4. A total considered with reference to its constituent parts; a gross amount: "An empire is the aggregate of many states under one common head” ( Edmund Burke).
5. The mineral materials, such as sand or stone, used in making concrete.
6. To gather into a mass, sum, or whole.
7. To amount to; total.
8. To come together or collect in a mass or whole: "Some [bacteria]aggregate so closely as to mimic a multicellular organism” ( Gina Kolata).
9. in the aggregate Taken into account as a whole: Unit sales for December amounted in the aggregate to 100,000.